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How scientific practices matter :

Rouse, Joseph, 1952-

How scientific practices matter : reclaiming philosophical naturalism / Joseph Rouse. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002. - ix, 383 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The problem of manifest necessity -- The dualism of nature and normativity -- Quinean indeterminacy and its implications for naturalism -- Feminist challenges to the reification of knowledge -- Two concepts of scientific practices -- Perception, action, and discursive practices -- Desires, bodies, and normative force -- Experimentation, theory, and the normativity of natural phenomena -- Natural necessity and the normativity of scientific practices.

0226730085 (cloth : alk. paper)

2002007831


Science--Philosophy.
Naturalism

Q175 / .R5668 2002

501

 

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