Mathematics, science, and postclassical theory / Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors.

Mathematics, science & postclassical theory

Durham, NC ; London : Duke University Press, 1997.

vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"The text of this book was originally published without the essay "Microdynamics of Incommmensurability" by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and without the index as volume 94, number 2 of the South Atlantic Quarterly-- T.p. verso.

Introduction: networks and symetries: decidable and undecidable / Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky -- Thinking dia-grams: mathematics, writing, and virtual reality / Brian Rotman -- Concepts and the mangle of practice: constructing quaternions / Andrew Pickering -- The moment of truth on Dublin bridge: a response to Andrew Pickering / Owen Flanagan -- Explanation, agency, and metaphysics: a response to Owen Flanagan / Andrew Pickering -- Agency and the hybrid collectif / Michel Callon and John Law -- The accidental chordate: contingency in developmental systems / Susan Oyama -- Complementarity, idealization, and the limits of classical conceptions of reality / Arkady Plotnitsky -- Is "is a precursor of" a transitive relation? / E. Roy Weintraub -- Fraud by numbers: quantitative rhetoric in the Piltdown forgery discovery / Malcolm Ashmore -- A glance at SunSet: numerical fundaments in Frege, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Beckett / John Vignaux Smyth -- Microdynamics of incommensurability: philosophy of science meets science studies / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.