Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Dorothea E. Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Minor. She is author of Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation and Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy and editor (with Christina Schües and Helen A. Fielding) of Time in Feminist Phenomenology (IUP, 2011).

• Preface: Postmodern PhilosophyAcknowledgements1. Nature Calls: Scientific Worldviews and the Sokal Hoax2. The Natural Contract and the Archimedean World View3. Semi-Free: Thermodynamics, Probability and the New Worldview4. Burning Man: The Influence of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Science of Flow5. Philosophy's Extra-scientific Messages6. Love's Ontology: Ethics Beyond the Limits of Classical ScienceNotesBibliographyIndex

This book is clear, but that does not mean it is not complex. Nevertheless, the struggle is rewarding; I highly recommend it.(Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)