Table des matières
Chapter One. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Phenomenology, and the Problem of the External World
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Scepticism and SSK
- 3. SSK and External-World Realism
- 4. Phenomenology and the ‘Natural Attitude’
- 5. The Phenomenology of Subjectivity in Heidegger’s Being and Time
- 6. Heidegger’s Response to External-World Scepticism
- 7. A Heideggerian Critique of SSK’s Response to External-World Scepticism
- 8. Conclusion
Chapter Three. Finitude, Humility, and the Bloor-Latour Debate
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Kantian Humility and the Thing-in-Itself
- 3. Latour’s Attack on Social Constructivism
- 4. Bloor’s Defence of Social Constructivism
- 5. Where the Dust Settles in the Debate
- 6. Heidegger and the Thing-in-Itself
- 7. Putting the Bloor-Latour Debate to Rest
- 8. The Humility of Science Studies
- 9. Conclusion
Chapter Four. Things, Thinking, and the Social Foundations of Logic
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Heidegger on the Unity of Things and Thinking
- 3. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Plato
- 4. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Aristotle
- 5. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Descartes
- 6. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Kant
- 7. ‘The Argument Lives and Feeds on Something’
- 8. Time and Tradition at the Existential Root of Logic
- 9. From the Phenomenology of Thinking to the Sociology of Knowledge
- 10. The Social Foundations of Logic
- 11. Conclusion
Chapter Five. Mathēsis and the Emergence of Early-Modern Science
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modern Science as Mathēsis
- 3. Renaissance Regressus and the Logic of Discovery
- 4. From Renaissance Regressus to Early-Modern Mathēsis
- 5. Mathematics and Metaphysics at the Cusp of the Early-Modern Period
- 6. Nature, Art, and Final Causes in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy
- 7. Conclusion
