Understanding nature
Subtitle: case studies in comparative epistemology
By: Hub Zwart
Series: International library of environmental, agricultural, and food ethics -- v. 13; International library of environmental, agricultural, and food ethics -- v. 13.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Dordrecht?]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781402064920; 9781402064913
Subjects: The orie de la connaissance; Philosophy of nature; Philosophie de la nature; Theory of Knowledge
Description: We tend to identify???real??? knowledge of nature with science, and for good reasons. The sciences have developed unique ways of disclosing and modifying the intricate workings of nature, building on quantitative, experimental and technologically advanced styles of thinking. Scientific research has produced robust and reliable forms of knowledge, using methodologies that are often remarkably transparent and verifiable. At the same time, laboratories and other research settings are highly artificial environments, constituting drastically modified versions of reality, allowing nature to emerge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Matter; Comparative Epistemology; Antecedents: Comparative Epistemology as an Outcome; What is an Animal? A Comparative Epistemology of Animals; What is a Whale? Moby-Dick, Marine Science and the Sublime; What is a Dog? Animal Experiments and Animal Novels; The Birth of a Research Animal; Aquaphobia, Tulipmania, Biophilia: A Moral Geography of the Dutch Landscape; Taming Microbes: Ibsen's Dr. Stockmann as a Contemporary of Pasteur and Koch; Pea Stories. Why was Mendel's Research Ignored in 1866 and Rediscovered in 1900?