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Science and an African Logic by Helen Verran (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226853918
ISBN-139780226853918
eBay Product ID (ePID)1953968
Product Key Features
Number of Pages286 Pages
Publication NameScience and an African Logic
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Surveys / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Logic
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Science
AuthorHelen Verran
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-027752
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal160/.89/96333
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Disconcertment 2. Toward Generative Critique Part Two: Numbering 3. A Comparative Study of Yoruba and English Number Systems 4. Decomposing Displays of Numbers 5. Toward Telling the Social Lives of Numbers Part Three: Generalizing 6. Learning to Apply Numbers to Nature 7. Decomposing Generalizing as "Finding Abstract Objects" 8. Toward Generalization as Transition Part Four: Certainty 9. Two Consistent Logics of Numbering 10. Decomposing Predicating-Designating as Representing 11. Embodied Certainty and Predicating-Designating Notes References Index
SynopsisDoes 2 + 2 = 4? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this captivating book, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at how science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary schools. Drawing on her experience as a teacher in Nigeria, Verran describes how she went from the radical conclusion that logic and math are culturally relative, to determining what Westerners find so disconcerting about Yoruba logic, to a new understanding of all generalizing logic. She reveals that in contrast to the one-to-many model found in Western number systems, Yoruba thinking operates by figuring things as wholes and their parts. Quantity is not absolute but always relational. Certainty is derived not from abstract logic, but from cultural practices and associations. A powerful story of how one woman's investigation in this everday situation led to extraordinary conclusions about the nature of numbers, generalization, and certainty, this book will be a signal contribution to philosophy, anthropology of science, and education.
LC Classification NumberDT515.45.Y67V47 2001
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