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9780821413517

Science Unfettered

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  • ISBN13:

    9780821413517

  • ISBN10:

    0821413511

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Barbara Tuchanska is a professor of philosophy at the University of Lodz.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(16)
Ontic and Ontological Perspectives on Science
17(69)
Two Philosophical Approaches to Scientific Cognition
18(12)
The Social Nature of Science
30(8)
The Historical Nature of Science
38(7)
History and Dynamic Ontologies
45(6)
Science as a Cognitive Sociohistorical Phenomenon: The Need for a Fundamental Hermeneutic Ontology
51(12)
Beyond Heidegger's Existentialism and Gadamer's Linguisticism
63(1)
The Absence of the Social in Heidegger's Ontology and Gadamer's Remedy
63(9)
Historicity of History and Temporality of Dasein
72(5)
Language as the Medium of Understanding
77(3)
Science as Objectifying Thematization
80(6)
Fundamental Ontology: Communities and Practice
86(47)
Interrelations of Action, Knowledge, and Power
87(6)
Beings and the Ways of Being
93(6)
Interrelatedness and Participation as Structures of Being
99(12)
Practice as the Way of Being
111(14)
The Cultural and the Natural within Practice
125(8)
Fundamental Ontology: Science
133(45)
Practical Embodiment of Cognition
135(4)
Scientific Research as a Form of Practice
139(16)
A Form of Practice as Scientific Cognition
155(8)
Scientific Research and Other Cognitive Subpractices
163(7)
Causation as an Element of Scientific Objectification
170(8)
Historicity and Becoming
178(45)
Historical Understanding versus Explaining History
179(8)
Historicity
187(9)
Present, Past, and Future
196(11)
Becoming and Persistence
207(9)
The Rise of Individualism in Modern Europe
216(7)
Historicity of Science
223(50)
Nomological and Hermeneutic Views of the History of Science
224(5)
Historicity of Science
229(17)
Historicist-Hermeneutic View of Concept-Formation
246(5)
The Ontic-Ontological Genealogy of Science
251(7)
Scientific Experience and Its Historical Variability
258(15)
Science and Objectivity
273(53)
Objectivity as the Product of Reason
273(8)
Social Production of Objectivity in Science
281(5)
The Normative Aspect of Objectivity
286(8)
Objectivity as the Product of Reality
294(9)
Contextualist Views of Scientific Objectivity
303(10)
Objectivity and Creativity of Science
313(13)
Epilogue 326(7)
Notes 333(56)
References 389(24)
Index 413

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