The Intelligibility of Nature : How Science Makes Sense of the World Paperback / softback
by Peter Dear
Part of the science.culture series
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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.
In "The 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 Dear, that separation has survived to shape attitudes toward science ever since.
Teasing out the tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science, Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist.
Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, "The Intelligibility of Nature" will be essential reading for aficionados and historians of science alike.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:254 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780226139494
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:254 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226139494