Science in the Forest, Science in the Past

edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça

HAU, 2019
Paper: 978-1-912808-41-0 | eISBN: 978-1-912808-42-7
Library of Congress Classification BD331.S418 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 111

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS

ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 about these societies and propose more faithful, sensitive analyses of their ontological views about reality—a step toward mutual understanding and translatability across cultures and research fields.

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past is a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration that will challenge the way readers interested in sciences, mathematics, humanities, social research, computer sciences, and education think about deeply held notions of what constitutes reality, how it is apprehended, and how to investigate it.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd is professor emeritus of ancient philosophy and science at the University of Cambridge, where he was master of Darwin College from 1989 to 2000. He has published over thirty books, most recently Being, Humanity and Understanding and The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations. Aparecida Vilaça is professor of social anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia and Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia, among others.

REVIEWS

"Is there one big Science, or are there many legitimate forms of knowledge? Are primary qualities the sole object of scientific inquiry, or is there a space for investigating the multidimensionality of phenomena? Are the ontological foundations of different systems of worlding incompatible, or do they allow hybridization and the expression of foundational principles? This innovative book tackles these questions afresh by bringing together an impressive set of international scholars in fields ranging from ancient civilizations and non-Western cultures to the computing sciences. Their deconstruction of the sterile deadlock between universalism and relativism will be a milestone for years to come."

— Philippe Descola, Collège de France, author of Beyond Nature and Culture

"The volume is. . .well worth taking the time to read. I encourage engaging and reflecting. . ."

— Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science

"The chapters of this book constitute serious and detailed reflections on forms of knowledge that go beyond, in different times and spaces, those where anthropology as a science has historically been constituted. Approaching these differences, understanding their inflections, languages, and areas of interest, could not be more useful at a time when the prevailing forms of knowledge seem to have reached unprecedented material and social limits."

— Anthropos (Translated from Spanish)

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