Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres

by Vera Bühlmann

Book Overview

This book introduces the reader to Serres' unique manner of 'doing philosophy' that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.

It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350019763
• ISBN13: 9781350019768
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"