Understanding Nature Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology /
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwi...
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Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Series: | The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics,
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Table of Contents:
- Comparative Epistemology
- Antecedents: Comparative Epistemology as an Outcome
- Animal Epistemology
- What is an Animal? A Comparative Epistemology of Animals
- What is a Whale? Moby-Dick, Marine Science and the Sublime
- What is a Dog? Animal Experiments and Animal Novels
- The Birth of a Research Animal
- Plants, Landscapes and Environments
- Aquaphobia, Tulipmania, Biophilia: A Moral Geography of the Dutch Landscape
- Taming Microbes: Ibsen's Dr. Stockmann as a Contemporary of Pasteur and Koch
- Pea Stories. Why was Mendel's Research Ignored in 1866 and Rediscovered in 1900?
- Jules Verne's Oeuvre: A Literary Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology
- Conclusion
- Epistemological Exercises: Towards a Typology of Knowledge Forms.