The intelligibility of nature: How science makes sense of the world, by Peter Dear [Book Review]

Heythrop Journal 49 (4):702-703 (2008)
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History indicates that science is primarily not a theoretical but a practical enterprise. It represents the symbiosis of two human activities, namely, on the one hand, natural philosophy, which seeks to make sense of the world, and, on the other hand, instrumental thinking, which seeks to control the world.

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