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"Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates about representation and the status of scientific claims, epistemological issues central to the so-called Science Wars. The book offers a stimulating reading of Lucretius's poem on physics, On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Naturum), which Duncan Kennedy uses as a case study in the historicization of scientific theory." The book explores the historical, philosophical, and literary issues surrounding the question of the relationship between representation and reality. It engages in a sustained argument about realist assumptions in scientific and other discourses through detailed analysis and discussion of some of the most important recent contributions in this debate. What are the implications of regarding such knowledge as "discovered" or "invented"? How is the rhetoric of such claims to be identified and the pretensions of those claims assessed? In what ways can realist and constructivist approaches be reconciled? How do these considerations affect the way we read scientific texts from the past and regard them historically?
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- Author/s Kennedy, Duncan F.
- ISBN13 9780472112883
- ISBN10 0472112880
- Pages 145
- Published 2002
- Language English
Rethinking reality: Lucretius and the textualization of nature
- Author Duncan F. Kennedy
- Publisher U. MICHIGAN
- ISBN 9780472112883
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