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Cognitive Pragmatism

…as inductive validation, hypostatization fallacies, and counterfactual reasoning, Rescher abandons abstract generalities in favor of concrete specifics. For example, philosophers usually insist that to reason logically from a counterfactual, we…

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The Andes Imagined

questions of theorizing modernity. | Jorge Coronado| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| History / General History / Latin America / South America Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American…

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Science Transformed?

|9780822961635|Debating Claims of an Epochal Break| Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling have changed science into a technology-driven institution. Government, industry, and society increasingly exert their…

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Rockin Las Americas

…as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing <I>rockeros</I> and <I>rockeras</I>. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and…

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Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination

…and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.| Martin Mahony Samuel Randalls| Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene| Science / Global Warming &…

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