Postmodern philosophy and the scientific turn

Main Author: Olkowski, Dorothea.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Physical Description: xxvii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Nature calls: scientific worldviews and the sokal hoax
  • The natural contract and the archimedean worldview
  • Semi-free: thermodynamics, probability, and the new worldview
  • Burning man: the influence of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the science of flow
  • Philosophy's extra-scientific messages
  • Love's ontology: ethics beyond the limits of classical science.