Home eBooks Download › the intelligibility of nature

The Intelligibility Of Nature

Download The Intelligibility Of Nature PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Intelligibility Of Nature book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

The Intelligibility Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Dear
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15

The Intelligibility Of Nature written by Peter Dear and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Science categories.

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe. In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and how it has marshaled itself to make sense of the world. His intellectual journey begins with a crucial observation: that the enterprise of science is, and has been, directed toward two distinct but frequently conflated ends—doing and knowing. The ancient Greeks developed this distinction of value between craft on the one hand and understanding on the other, and according to Dear, that distinction has survived to shape attitudes toward science ever since. Teasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science—mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory—Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, The Intelligibility of Nature will be essential reading for aficionados and historians of science alike.

Intelligibility Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : Op William Wallace
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2023-01-06

Intelligibility Of Nature written by Op William Wallace and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-06 with Philosophy categories.

The intelligibility of nature was a persistent theme of William A. Wallace, OP, one of the most prolific Catholic scholars of the late twentieth century. This Reader aims to make available a representative selection of his work in the history of science, natural philosophy, and theology illustrating his defense and development of this central theme. Wallace is among the most important Galileo scholars of the past fifty years and a key figure in the recent revival of scientific realism. Further, his long and productive scholarly career has been shaped by a continuous effort to bring the resources of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition to the solution of contemporary problems of philosophy and science. Through all of these contributions, Wallace has provided the foundation for a renewed confidence in the capacity of human knowers to attain understanding of the natural order. Consequently, the overall aim of this volume is to secure continued access to his scholarship for readers in the new millennium. The Intelligibility of Nature will contain twenty-nine previously published essays written by Wallace over a period of some forty years. Many of these essays are currently not readily accessible. They are arranged in five thematic groups, each representing a major subject-area of Wallace's scholarly interests. The first group is devoted to essays on making nature intelligible through the use of scientific models. The second group of essays investigates various ways in which the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition is foundational to contemporary scientific research. Essays in the third group are historical studies on the origins of modern science. The fourth group of essays discuss the viability of the cosmological argument for the existence of God in light of natural science. The final group of essays consider the relation of science and religion. Together these essays provide a representative sample of Wallace's multifaceted contributions to scholarship.

The Intelligibility Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : George N. Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

The Intelligibility Of Nature written by George N. Schlesinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Nature categories.

The Intelligibility Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : George N. Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01-01

Second Genesis A Stepping Stones Towards The Intelligibility Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : Julian Chela-flores
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2008-12-29

Second Genesis A Stepping Stones Towards The Intelligibility Of Nature written by Julian Chela-flores and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-29 with Science categories.

A Second Genesis enquires why nature is intelligible. The fast growth of technology and deeper understanding of the humanities have provided significant clues. Answering the question why nature can be understood requires an introduction to the new science of astrobiology and the exploration of the Solar System. A careful discussion of a “second Genesis” is presented, namely our present awareness that life may have emerged on other worlds. Writing this volume has been motivated by the need to encourage a constructive dialogue between science and faith. Such an objective for a new book is timely, since science is inserted with well-defined frontiers in the context of human culture. Similarly, the frontiers of faith do not require religion to justify itself in scientific terms, avoiding current unnecessary controversies.This book intends to engage readers interested in the position of humans in nature. It makes a serious effort to avoid demanding detailed knowledge of science, philosophy, or theology, but will require some careful reading and meditation.

The Modeling Of Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : William A Wallace
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 1996

The Modeling Of Nature written by William A Wallace and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.

The Modeling of Nature provides an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of natural philosophy, psychology, logic, and epistemology.

Intelligible Design

DOWNLOAD
Author : Julio Antonio Gonzalo
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2014

Intelligible Design written by Julio Antonio Gonzalo and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Science categories.

This is an in-depth study of one of the most important and prominent Hua-ch''iao (Overseas Chinese) of twentieth-century Southeast Asian and China OCo Tan Kah-kee (1874OCo1961).For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee''s case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for sixteen years. He was the only Hua-ch''iao of his generation to have led the Chinese in South-East Asia to help China to resist the Japanese invasion in a concerted and coordinated manner. Moreover, he was the only Hua-ch''iao leader to have played both Singapore and China politics and affairs in close quarters, rubbing shoulders with British governors, Chinese officials and commanders. Finally, it is important to point out that Tan Kah-kee was the only Hua-ch''iao in his times to have combined his Pang, community and political power and influences for the advancement of community, regional and national goals.This is an in-depth study of not just Tan Kah-kee per se but also the making of a legend through his deeds, self-sacrifices, fortitude and foresight. This revised edition sheds new light on his political agonies in Mao''s China over campaigns against capitalists and intellectuals. Moreover, it analyses more comprehensively the varied legacies of Tan Kah-kee, including his successors, the style of his non-partisan political leadership, his educational strategy for nation-building, social change and OC the Spirit of Tan Kah-keeOCO, currently in vogue in his home province, Fukien.

Intelligibility Oral Communication And The Teaching Of Pronunciation

DOWNLOAD
Author : John M. Levis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-04

Intelligibility Oral Communication And The Teaching Of Pronunciation written by John M. Levis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Foreign Language Study categories.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

Nature

DOWNLOAD
Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2003

Nature written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.

Collected in this text are the written notes of courses on the concept of nature give by Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s. The ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures emerge in an early, fluid form in the process of being elaborated, negotiated, critiqued and reconsidered.

Aristotle On The Nature Of Truth

DOWNLOAD
Author : Christopher P. Long
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-22

Aristotle On The Nature Of Truth written by Christopher P. Long and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-22 with Philosophy categories.

This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.

The Intelligibility Of Nature

Recent Posts