Cosmopolitics i

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From Einstein’s quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking’s belief that we “would know the mind of God” through such a theory, contemporary science—and physics in particular—has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of the universe. In a sweeping work of philosophical inquiry, originally published in French in seven volumes, Isabelle Stengers builds on her previous intellectual accomplishments to explore the role and authority of science in modern societies and to challenge its pretensions to objectivity, rationality, and truth. For Stengers, science is a constructive enterprise, a diverse, interdependent, and highly contingent system that does not simply discover preexisting truths but, through specific practices and processes, helps shape them. She addresses conceptual themes crucial for modern science, such as the formation of physical-mathematical intelligibility, from Galilean mechanics and the origin of dynamics to quantum theory, the question of biological reductionism, and the power relations at work in the social and behavioral sciences. Focusing on the polemical and creative aspects of such themes, she argues for an ecology of practices that takes into account how scientific knowledge evolves, the constraints and obligations such practices impose, and the impact they have on the sciences and beyond. This perspective, which demands that competing practices and interests be taken seriously rather than merely (and often condescendingly) tolerated, poses a profound political and ethical challenge. In place of both absolutism and tolerance, she proposes a cosmopolitics—modeled on the ideal scientific method that considers all assumptions and facts as being open to question—that reintegrates the natural and the social, the modern and the archaic, the scientific and the irrational. Cosmopolitics I includes the first three volumes of the original work. Cosmopolitics II will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2011.

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Cosmopolitics Ii

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Another Science is Possible A Manifesto for Slow Science

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Like fast food fast science is quickly prepared not particularly good and it clogs up the system efforts to tackle our most pressing issues like global warming have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach like fast food fas Uiterlijk 30 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Thinking with Whitehead

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Alfred north whitehead has never gone out of print but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the english speaking world in a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary isabelle stengers one of today s leading philosophers of science goes straight to the be Uiterlijk 30 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 juli 2010

Aantal pagina's: 272

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Hoofdauteur: Isabelle Stengers

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Minnesota Press

Eerste Vertaler: Robert Bononno

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Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

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Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm

Verpakking lengte: 215 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 379 g

EAN: 9780816656875

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