书目名称 | Historical Epistemology of Space |
副标题 | From Primate Cogniti |
编辑 | Matthias Schemmel |
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概述 | Introduces an epistemologically informed history of knowledge across different disciplines.Discusses the societal and material conditions under which theories and spatial thinking develop.Presents the |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology |
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描述 | .This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from various disciplines, this work throws new light on long-standing problems in epistemology such as the relation between experience and preformed structures of cognition...What do the orientation of apes and the theory of relativity have to do with each other? Readers will learn how different forms of spatial thinking are related in a long-term history of knowledge. Scientific concepts of space such as Newton’s absolute space or Einstein’s curved spacetime are shown to be rooted in pre-scientific structures of knowledge, while at the same time enabling the integration of an ever expanding corpus of experiential knowledge. ..This work addresses all readers interested in questions of epistemology, in particular philosophers and historians of science. It integrates forms of spatial knowledge from disciplines including anthropology, developmental psychology and cognitive sciences, amongst others.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Cognition; Developmental psychology; Evolutionary epistemology; External representations; Genetic episte |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25241-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-25239-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-25241-4Series ISSN 2211-4564 Series E-ISSN 2211-4572 |
issn_series | 2211-4564 |
copyright | The Author(s) 2016 |