Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature

by Duncan F. Kennedy

How deeply into the structure of physical reality do the effects of our way of representing it reach? To what extent do constructivist accounts of scientific theorizing involve realist assumptions, and vice versa? This book provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates, taking as its theme the question of the relationship of representation and reality. It treats in an attractive and accessible way the historical, philosophical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112880
• ISBN13: 9780472112883
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"