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Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
(Hardcover, 1999)
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Author: Bert Terpstra, Paul Feyerabend
In this posthumous book, intended for general readers, Feyerabend focuses on the ways human beings a...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0226245330
ISBN-13: 9780226245331
Dec 1999
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
285 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this posthumous book, intended for general readers, Feyerabend focuses on the ways human beings abstract principles from a world too abundant for them to understand--or even truly apprehend--in its more natural state. Looking at the history of science's attempts to describe the world through theorems and laws, Feyerabend tallies the gains and losses those attempts have produced.
| Size | | Length: | 285 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"One of the compelling goals of this book is to help bring [the constructionist/realist] debate from the academic to the public domain, and this alone makes it worth reading....[It] is as abundant and rich as the world it envisions."
Plotnitsky
"The book itself is a work of such abundance that a review is likely to remain idiosyncratically selective, pathetically illustrating Feyerabend's theme--the impoverishing consequences of academic tradition."
Times Literary Supplement - Bas Van Fraassen (06/23/2000)
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