Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226293844)

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself.

In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse argues that the most pressing challenge for advocates of naturalism today is precisely this: to understand how to make sense of a scientific conception of nature as itself part of nature, scientifically understood. Drawing upon recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science, Rouse defends naturalism in response to this challenge by revising both how we understand our scientific conception of the world and how we situate ourselves within it.

Author: Joseph Rouse
ISBN-10: 022629384X
ISBN-13: 9780226293844
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d