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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory (Paperback, New Ed)
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory (Paperback, New Ed)
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique
collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science
and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge,
language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from
poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history and
sociology of science, and related work in contemporary philosophy.
Featuring a distinguished group of international contributors, this
volume engages themes and issues central to current theoretical
debates in virtually all disciplines: agency, causality,
determinacy, representation, and the social dynamics of knowledge.
In a substantive introductory essay, the editors explain the notion
of "postclassical theory" and discuss the significance of ideas
such as emergence and undecidability in current work in and on
science and mathematics. Other essays include a witty examination
of the relations among mathematical thinking, writing, and the
technologies of virtual reality; an essay that reconstructs the
conceptual practices that led to a crucial mathematical
discovery-or construction-in the 19th century; a discussion of the
implications of Bohr's complementarity principle for classical
ideas of reality; an examination of scientific laboratories as
"hybrid" communities of humans and nonhumans; an analysis of
metaphors of control, purpose, and necessity in contemporary
biology; an exploration of truth and lies, and the play of words
and numbers in Shakespeare, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Beckett; and a
final chapter on recent engagements, or nonengagements, between
rationalist/realist philosophy of science and contemporary science
studies. Contributors. Malcolm Ashmore, Michel Callon, Owen
Flanagan, John Law, Susan Oyama, Andrew Pickering, Arkady
Plotnitsky, Brian Rotman, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, John Vignaux
Smyth, E. Roy Weintraub
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