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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science
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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science
von: Jody Azzouni
Routledge, 2007
ISBN: 9780203413241
270 Seiten, Download: 2238 KB
 
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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is it to be taken literally? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what’s real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth? Jody Azzouni approaches these questions through a compelling analysis of the "reference" of kind terms. The book begins by investigating the technology of science— the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between us and what we endeavor to refer to and know. It shows how this technology allows for knowledge gathering, why scientific lore must be regarded as true and in what ways instrumental access to our universe is anchored in observation. The second part of the book studies the language of science and shows how this flexible tool enables us to transform our fragmented investigations of the world into a unitary and seamless discourse. Azzouni proposes that scientific language does allow us to speak of what’s true and so he questions influential views which take scientific laws to be at best only approximate, or even false. Central to the book is the author’s support of semantic naturalism—a program of showing that the resources of our language do not conflict with the scientific picture of us as animals. This not only illuminates concerns in the philosophy of language, but also sheds new light on the role of holism and deduction in science.

The Author

Jody Azzouni is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences.  



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