Science in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations

ISBN-13: 9781032150710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Willard McCarty; Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Aparecida Vilaça

Opis

This book comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Philosophical engagements with distant sciences 3. Mongolian map-making as practice 4. Star canoes, voyaging worlds 5. Counting generation(s) 6. A pagan arithmetic: unstable sets in indigenous Amazonia 7. As perceived, not as known: digital enquiry and the art of intelligence 8. Inventing Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia 9. Mereological themes in cuneiform worldmaking 10. Monteverdi’s unruly women and their Amazonian sisters