Engaging Science by Joseph Rouse
How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically
This book argues for a practice-centered, naturalistic philosophy of science that foregrounds the skills, instruments, material manipulations, and social arrangements through which scientific knowledge is actually produced. Rejecting the idea that science is best understood solely as theory-construction or logical inference, it analyzes how tacit knowledge, experimental craft, representational practices, and institutional interactions jointly secure reliable claims about the world. Drawing on case studies and philosophical resources from pragmatism and the social studies of science, it shows how engagement with everyday scientific work reshapes familiar philosophical questions about objectivity, explanation, and scientific realism.
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