{"product_id":"technique-of-thought","title":"Technique of Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Technique of Thought\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French thinkers—Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou, and Bernard Stiegler. Situating their writings within both contemporary scientific debates and the philosophy of science, Ian James elaborates a philosophical naturalism that is notably distinct from the Anglo-American tradition. The naturalism James proposes also diverges decisively from the ways in which continental philosophy has previously engaged with the sciences. He explores the technical procedures and discursive methods used by each of the four thinkers as distinct “techniques of thought” that approach scientific understanding and knowledge experimentally.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond debates about the constructed nature of scientific knowledge, \u003ci\u003eThe Technique of Thought\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a strong, variably configured, and entirely novel scientific realism. By bringing together post-phenomenological perspectives concerning individual or collective consciousness and first-person qualitative experience with science’s focus on objective and third-person quantitative knowledge, James tracks the emergence of a new image of the sciences and of scientific practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStripped of aspirations toward total mastery of the universe or a “grand theory of everything,” this renewed scientific worldview, along with the simultaneous reconfiguration of philosophy’s relationship to science, opens up new ways of interrogating immanent reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54217143910744,"sku":"9781517904296","price":105.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517904296__6765343a9abb9.jpg?v=1741156965","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/technique-of-thought","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}