Intelligibility of Nature How Science Makes Sense of the World

Name: Intelligibility of Nature How Science Makes Sense of the World
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ISBN: 9780226139494

ISBN-10: 0226139492

ISBN-13: 9780226139494

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter Dear

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Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. Despite numerous evolutions and revolutions, it maintains its distinction as the knowing endeavor that explains how the natural world works and offers insight into the meaning of the universe. InThe Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and positioned itself. His intellectual journey begins with a crucial observation: that scientific ambition is, and has been, directed toward two distinct but frequently conflated ends—doing and knowing. The ancient Greeks articulated the difference between craft and understanding, and according to…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 4.65" wide x 8.86" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: Science as Natural Philosophy, Science as Instrumentality



The Mechanical Universe from Galileo to Newton



A Place for Everything: The Classification of the World



The Chemical Revolution Thwarted by Atoms



Design and Disorder: The Origin of Species



Dynamical Explanation: The Aether and Victorian Machines



How to Understand Nature? Einstein, Bohr, and the Quantum Universe


Conclusion: Making Sense in Science


Bibliographical Essay