Science in the Forest, Science in the Past
This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western, and Indigenous societies, both ancient and contemporary. The authors analyze prevailing assumptions abo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
HAU Books
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720222606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça
- The Clash of Ontologies and the Problems of Translation and Mutual Intelligibility / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
- Inventing Nature: Christianity and Science in Indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça
- A Clash of Ontologies? Time, Law, and Science in Papua New Guinea / Marilyn Strathern
- Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Greece and Rome / Serafina Cuomo
- Is there Mathematics in the Forest? / Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida
- Different Clusters of Texts from Ancient China, Different Mathematical Ontologies / Karine Chemla
- Shedding Light on Diverse Cultures of Mathematical Practices in South Asia: Early Sanskrit Mathematical Texts in Conversation with Modern Elementary Tamil Mathematical Curricula (in Dialogue with Senthil Babu) / Agathe Keller
- Antidomestication in the Amazon: Swidden and its Foes / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
- Objective Functions: (In)humanity and Inequity in Artificial Intelligence / Alan Blackwell
- Modeling, Ontology, and Wild Thought: Toward an Anthropology of the Artificially Intelligent / Willard McCarty
- Rhetorical Antinomies and Radical Othering: Recent Reflections on Responses to an Old Paper Concerning Human-Animal Relations in Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
- Turning to Ontology in Studies of Distant Sciences / Nicholas Jardine
- Epilogue: The Way Ahead / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça.
