The Intelligibility of Nature
Friday March 27, 2009
It’s been a trifle quiet over here, so until I get round to putting some more thoughts in order for some more posts (I can tolerate a certain disorder of thought – indeed, I find it bracing, but the sheer amount of disorder at the moment is really pretty impressive…), I’ll add a link to my recently published review of Peter Dear’s book The Intelligibility of Nature on the Metapsychology Online website. Dear’s book explores the tensions between science as instrumentality (getting things done in the world) and science as natural philosophy (saying how the world actually is), and along the way raises some interesting ethical questions.
Normal service will, I hope, be resumed soon. Some time, I anticipate, after I have worked my way through the remainder of the pile of student work that is awaiting marking…
#1 · mark
3 April 2009
“getting things gone in the world” => “getting things done in the world”?