Science unfettered : a philosophical study in sociohistorical ontology /
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| Author / Creator: | McGuire, J. E. |
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| Imprint: | Athens : Ohio University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | viii, 420 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series in Continental thought ; 28 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4401030 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1.. 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
- Chapter 2.. 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
- Chapter 3.. 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
- Chapter 4.. 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
- Chapter 5.. Historicity and Becoming
- Historical Understanding versus Explaining History
- Historicity
- Present, Past, and Future
- Becoming and Persistence
- The Rise of Individualism in Modern Europe
- Chapter 6.. 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
- Scientific Experience and Its Historical Variability
- Chapter 7.. Science and Objectivity
- Objectivity as the Product of Reason
- Social Production of Objectivity in Science
- The Normative Aspect of Objectivity
- Objectivity as the Product of Reality
- Contextualist Views of Scientific Objectivity
- Objectivity and Creativity of Science
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
