Science in the Forest, Science in the Past / / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Aparecida Vilaça.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lloyd, G. E. R. 1933-; Vilaça, Aparecida
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : HAU Books,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)

This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western, and Indigenous societies, both ancient and contemporary. The authors analyze prevailing assumptions abo...

Table of Contents

• Preface / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça
• The Clash of Ontologies and the Problems of Translation and Mutual Intelligibility / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
• Inventing Nature: Christianity and Science in Indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça
• A Clash of Ontologies? Time, Law, and Science in Papua New Guinea / Marilyn Strathern
• Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Greece and Rome / Serafina Cuomo
• Is there Mathematics in the Forest? / Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida
• Different Clusters of Texts from Ancient China, Different Mathematical Ontologies / Karine Chemla
• Shedding Light on Diverse Cultures of Mathematical Practices in South Asia: Early Sanskrit Mathematical Texts in Conversation with Modern Elementary Tamil Mathematical Curricula (in Dialogue with Senthil Babu) / Agathe Keller
• Antidomestication in the Amazon: Swidden and its Foes / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
• Objective Functions: (In)humanity and Inequity in Artificial Intelligence / Alan Blackwell
• Modeling, Ontology, and Wild Thought: Toward an Anthropology of the Artificially Intelligent / Willard McCarty
• Rhetorical Antinomies and Radical Othering: Recent Reflections on Responses to an Old Paper Concerning Human-Animal Relations in Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
• Turning to Ontology in Studies of Distant Sciences / Nicholas Jardine
• Epilogue: The Way Ahead / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça.