Yorick's World

Yorick's World
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9780520912878
ISBN-13 : 052091287X
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Yorick's World by : Peter Caws

Download or read book Yorick's World written by Peter Caws and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality. Caws's work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick's World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.


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