Book/Printed Material Science as social existence : Heidegger and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Title

• Science as social existence : Heidegger and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Names

• Kochan, Jeff, author.

Created / Published

• [Cambridge, UK] : Open Book Publishers, [2017]

Contents

• Introduction -- Chapter One. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Phenomenology, and the Problem of the External World ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Scepticism and SSK ; 3. SSK and External-World Realism ; 4. Phenomenology and the 'Natural Attitude' ; 5. The Phenomenology of Subjectivity in Heidegger's Being and Time ; 6. Heidegger's Response to External-World Scepticism ; 7. A Heideggerian Critique of SSK's Response to External-World Scepticism ; 8. Conclusion -- Chapter Two. A Minimal Realism for Science Studies ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Heidegger's Existential Conception of Science ; 3. Getting at the Real ; 4. A Phenomenological Reformulation of SSK's Residual Realism ; 5. Rouse on Heidegger and Realism ; 6. Minimal Realism and Scientific Practice ; 7. Conclusion ; Appendix -- Chapter Three. Finitude, Humility, and the Bloor-Latour Debate ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Kantian Humility and the Thing-in-Itself ; 3. Latour's Attack on Social Constructivism ; 4. Bloor's Defence of Social Constructivism ; 5. Where the Dust Settles in the Debate ; 6. Heidegger and the Thing-in-Itself ; 7. Putting the Bloor-Latour Debate to Rest ; 8. The Humility of Science Studies ; 9. Conclusion -- Chapter Four. Things, Thinking, and the Social Foundations of Logic ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Heidegger on the Unity of Things and Thinking ; 3. Heidegger's Phenomenological History of Logic: Plato ; 4. Heidegger's Phenomenological History of Logic: Aristotle ; 5. Heidegger's Phenomenological History of Logic: Descartes ' 6. Heidegger's Phenomenological History of Logic: Kant ; 7. 'The Argument Lives and Feeds on Something' ; 8. Time and Tradition at the Existential Root of Logic ; 9. From the Phenomenology of Thinking to the Sociology of Knowledge ; 10. The Social Foundations of Logic ; 11. Conclusion -- Chapter Five. Math esis and the Emergence of Early-Modern Science ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Modern Science as Math esis ; 3. Renaissance Regressus and the Logic of Discovery ; 4. From Renaissance Regressus to Early-Modern Math esis ; 5. Mathematics and Metaphysics at the Cusp of the Early-Modern Period ; 6. Nature, Art, and Final Causes in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy ; 7. Conclusion -- Chapter Six. Mathematics, Experiment, and the Ends of Scientific Practice ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Galilean First Thing and the Aims of Experiment ; 3. Releasing Experimental Things ; 4. Boyle versus Line: A Study in Experimental Fact-Making ; 5. Social Imagery and Early-Modern Science ; 6. Conclusion -- Chapter Seven. Conclusion: Subjects, Systems, and Other Unfinished Business ; Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.

Headings

• -  Heidegger, Martin,--1889-1976
• -  Knowledge, Sociology of
• -  Science--Social aspects
• -  Technology--Social aspects

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-413) and index.
• -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 09/01/2020)

Medium

• 1 online resource (444 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• B3279.H49

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020394870

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020394870

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• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

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• Unrestricted online access

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• pdf

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020394870

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