Research Catalog

Title

Science unfettered : a philosophical study in sociohistorical ontology / J.E. McGuire, Barbara Tuchańska.

Author

McGuire, J. E.

Publication

Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tuchańska, Barbara.

Description

viii, 420 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Series in Continental thought ; 28

Uniform Title

Series in Continental thought ; 28.

Subject

• Science > Philosophy
• Science > Social aspects
• Naturwissenschaften
• Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Wissenschaftstheorie
• Wetenschapsfilosofie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-411) and index.

Contents

Ontic and Ontological Perspectives on Science -- Two Philosophical Approaches to Scientific Cognition -- The Social Nature of Science -- The Historical Nature of Science -- History and Dynamic Ontologies -- Science as a Cognitive Sociohistorical Phenomenon: The Need for a Fundamental Hermeneutic Ontology -- Beyond Heidegger's Existentialism and Gadamer's Linguisticism -- The Absence of the Social in Heidegger's Ontology and Gadamer's Remedy -- Historicity of History and Temporality of Dasein -- Language as the Medium of Understanding -- Science as Objectifying Thematization -- Fundamental Ontology: Communities and Practice -- Interrelations of Action, Knowledge, and Power -- Beings and the Ways of Being -- Interrelatedness and Participation as Structures of Being -- Practice as the Way of Being -- The Cultural and the Natural within Practice -- Fundamental Ontology: Science -- Practical Embodiment of Cognition -- Scientific Research as a Form of Practice -- A Form of Practice as Scientific Cognition -- Scientific Research and Other Cognitive Subpractices -- Causation as an Element of Scientific Objectification -- Historicity and Becoming -- Historical Understanding versus Explaining History -- Historicity -- Present, Past, and Future -- Becoming and Persistence -- The Rise of Individualism in Modern Europe -- Historicity of Science -- Nomological and Hermeneutic Views of the History of Science -- Historicity of Science -- Historicist-Hermeneutic View of Concept-Formation -- The Ontic-Ontological Genealogy of Science.

ISBN

• 0821413503
• 9780821413500
• 0821413511
• 9780821413517

LCCN

00042765

OCLC

• ocm44174270
• 44174270
• SCSB-1207302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library