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Mathematics, science, and postclassical theory

Author: Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Arkady Plotnitsky
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : eBook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Arkady Plotnitsky
ISBN: 0822318571 9780822318576 0822318636 9780822318637
OCLC Number: 34548530
Notes: "The text of this book was originally published without the essay "Microdynamics of Incommmensurability" by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and without the index as volume 94, number 2 of the South Atlantic Quarterly-- T.p. verso.
Description: vi, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: networks and symetries: decidable and undecidable / Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky --
Thinking dia-grams: mathematics, writing, and virtual reality / Brian Rotman --
Concepts and the mangle of practice: constructing quaternions / Andrew Pickering --
The moment of truth on Dublin bridge: a response to Andrew Pickering / Owen Flanagan --
Explanation, agency, and metaphysics: a response to Owen Flanagan / Andrew Pickering --
Agency and the hybrid collectif / Michel Callon and John Law --
The accidental chordate: contingency in developmental systems / Susan Oyama --
Complementarity, idealization, and the limits of classical conceptions of reality / Arkady Plotnitsky --
Is "is a precursor of" a transitive relation? / E. Roy Weintraub --
Fraud by numbers: quantitative rhetoric in the Piltdown forgery discovery / Malcolm Ashmore --
A glance at SunSet: numerical fundaments in Frege, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Beckett / John Vignaux Smyth --
Microdynamics of incommensurability: philosophy of science meets science studies / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
Other Titles: Mathematics, science & postclassical theory
Responsibility: Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors.

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