'Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory' is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructive history and sociology of science, and related work in contemporary philosophy.

Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, eds.

Introduction: Networks and Symmetries, Decidable and Undecidable / Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky
Thinking Dia-Grams: Mathematics, Writing, and Virtual Reality /
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Concepts and the Mangle of Practice: Constructing Quaternions / Andrew Pickering
The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering / Owen Flanagan
Explanation, Agency, and Metaphysics: A Reply to Owen Flanagan / Andrew Pickering
Agency and the Hybrid Collectif / Michel Callon and John Law
The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems/ Susan Oyama
Complementarity, Idealization, and the Limits of Classical Conceptions of Reality / Arkady Plotnitsky
Is “Is a Precursor of” a Transitive Relation? / E. Roy Weintraub
Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the Piltdown Forgery Discovery / Malcolm Ashmore
A Glance at SunSet: Numerical Fundaments in Frege, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, and Beckett / John Vignaux Smyth
Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies / Barbara Hernnstein Smith
Notes on Contributors
Index