Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

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Introduction

Chapter One
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Phenomenology,and the Problem of the External World
1. Introduction
2. Scepticism and SSK
3. SSK and External-World Realism
4. Phenomenology and the ‘Natural Attitude’
5. The Phenomenology of Subjectivity in Heidegger’s Being and Time
6. Heidegger’s Response to External-World Scepticism
7. A Heideggerian Critique of SSK’s Response to External-World Scepticism
8. Conclusion

Chapter Two
A Minimal Realism for Science Studies
1. Introduction
2. Heidegger’s Existential Conception of Science
3. Getting at the Real
4. A Phenomenological Reformulation of SSK’s Residual Realism
5. Rouse on Heidegger and Realism
6. Minimal Realism and Scientific Practice
7. Conclusion
Appendix

Chapter Three
Finitude, Humility, and the Bloor-Latour Debate
1. Introduction
2. Kantian Humility and the Thing-in-Itself
3. Latour’s Attack on Social Constructivism
4. Bloor’s Defence of Social Constructivism
5. Where the Dust Settles in the Debate
6. Heidegger and the Thing-in-Itself
7. Putting the Bloor-Latour Debate to Rest
8. The Humility of Science Studies
9. Conclusion

Chapter Four
Things, Thinking, and the Social Foundations of Logic
1. Introduction
2. Heidegger on the Unity of Things and Thinking
3. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Plato
4. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Aristotle
5. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Descartes
6. Heidegger’s Phenomenological History of Logic: Kant
7. ‘The Argument Lives and Feeds on Something’
8. Time and Tradition at the Existential Root of Logic
9. From the Phenomenology of Thinking to the Sociology of Knowledge
10. The Social Foundations of Logic
11. Conclusion

Chapter Five
Mathēsis and the Emergence of Early-Modern Science
1. Introduction
2. Modern Science as Mathēsis
3. Renaissance Regressus and the Logic of Discovery
4. From Renaissance Regressus to Early-Modern Mathēsis
5. Mathematics and Metaphysics at the Cusp of the Early-Modern Period
6. Nature, Art, and Final Causes in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy
7. Conclusion

Chapter Six
Mathematics, Experiment, and the Ends of Scientific Practice
1. Introduction
2. The Galilean First Thing and the Aims of Experiment
3. Releasing Experimental Things
4. Boyle versus Line: A Study in Experimental Fact-Making
5. Social Imagery and Early-Modern Science
6. Conclusion

Chapter Seven
Conclusion: Subjects, Systems, and Other Unfinished Business
Appendix

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index