Articulating The World by Joseph Rouse
Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image
The book argues that conceptual understanding in science is best seen not as the possession of internal representations but as a practice of articulating the world through skillful engagement with materials, instruments, and social practices; it develops an account of understanding as the capacity to deploy concepts and techniques to make distinctions, manipulate phenomena, and render them intelligible, uses historical and laboratory-case studies to show how objectivity and normativity emerge from embodied, distributed practices, and challenges representationalist and purely epistemic accounts by offering a naturalized, practice-centered reconciliation of the scientific and manifest images.
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