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    Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

    By Dorothea E. Olkowski

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    What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateApr 23, 2012
    ISBN9780253001146
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      If science and postmodernism are to be reconciled (and I think they can be), then it's going to have to come from someone equally proficient on both sides of the aisle. And while it's clear that Olkowski really understands Deleuze, sadly, her treatment of thermodynamics, formal logic, and mathematics are too beholden to Deleuzian equivocation, wordplay, and spurious sociological inferences to add anything of interest to the science wars.

      [Also, because Olkowski gets this wrong a half-dozen times (p. 69, 105, etc), material implication is not the same as causality. Seriously, it bugs the hell out of me when people make grand metaphysical and scientific claims based on a misunderstanding of basic first-order logic.]