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Articulating the world : conceptual understanding and the scientific image
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ISBN: 9780226293844 9780226293677 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

How scientific practices matter : reclaiming philosophical naturalism
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ISBN: 0226730085 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Knowledge and power : toward a political philosophy of science
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ISBN: 080141959X 0801497132 9780801497131 Year: 1990 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

Engaging science : how to understand its practices philosophically.
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ISBN: 0801482895 080143193X 1501718622 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.) Cornell university press

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Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge.Rouse first outlines the shared assumptions by ostensibly opposed interpretive stances toward science: scientific realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and postempiricist historical rationalism. He then advances cultural studies as an alternative approach, one that understands the sciences as ongoing patterns of situated activity whose material setting is part of practice. Cultural studies of science, theauthor suggests, take seriously their own participation in and engagement with the culture of science, rejecting the purported detachment of earlier philosophical or sociological standpoints. Rather, such studies offer specific, critical discussions of how and why science matters, and to whom, and how opportunites for meaningful understanding and action are transformed by scientific practices.


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Social practices as biological niche construction
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ISBN: 9780226827971 Year: 2023 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

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"In his latest book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the next level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society-as-part-of-nature. He shows how and why to unite our biological conception of human beings as animals and our sociocultural and psychological conceptions of human beings as persons and acculturated agents. Rouse's highly regarded philosophy engages with biological understandings of human bodies and their environments as well as the diverse practices and institutions through which people live and engage with one another. Familiar conceptual separations of natural, social, and mental "worlds" did not arise by happenstance, he argues, but often for principled reasons that have left those divisions deeply entrenched in the common sense and disciplinary organization of contemporary intellectual life. Those reasons are now eroding in light of new developments across the disciplines, but that erosion has not been sufficient to produce more adequately integrated conceptual alternatives until now. Social Practices and Biological Niche Construction shows how the characteristic plasticity, plurality, and other traits that typify human ways of life can best be understood as evolved and evolving relations among human organisms and their distinctive biological environments. It also highlights the constitutive interdependence of those ways of life with many other organisms, from microbial populations to certain plants and animals, and explores the consequences of this in depth, noting, for instance, how the integration of the "natural" and "social" also provides new insights on central issues in social theory, such as the body, language, normativity, and power"--


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Engaging science: how to understand its practices philosophically
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ISBN: 9780801482892 9780801431937 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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How scientific practices matter: reclaiming philosophical naturalism
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ISBN: 9780226730080 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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Articulating the world
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ISBN: 022629370X 9780226293707 9780226293677 9780226293844 022629367X 022629384X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago

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Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse argues that the most pressing challenge for advocates of naturalism today is precisely this: to understand how to make sense of a scientific conception of nature as itself part of nature, scientifically understood. Drawing upon recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science, Rouse defends naturalism in response to this challenge by revising both how we understand our scientific conception of the world and how we situate ourselves within it.


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