A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

by Georges Canguilhem

Book Overview

Georges Canguilhem is one of France's leading philosophers and historians of science. Trained as both a medical doctor and a philosopher, Canguilhem overlapped these practices to demonstrate that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge.

A Vital Rationalist brings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942299736
• ISBN13: 9780942299731
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher