Joseph Rouse

Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science.

This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social pra...

How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism

How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on radical new concep...

Engaging Science

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultu...

Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically