Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vi, 279 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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"The text of this book was originally published without the essay 'Microdynamics of Incommensurability' by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and without the index as volume 94, number 2 of the South Atlantic Quarterly"--T.p. verso
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: networks and symmetries: 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