The Science of Lost Worlds
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Calgary Press
- Date of Publication 1 October 2026
- ISBN 9781773857091
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations - 35 Illustrations, black and white 700
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How do we understand the past when the past is weird: populated by different creatures and different environments, playing by different rules?
In The Science of Lost Worlds, Adrian Mitchell Currie and the fantastical Prof. Ichthy explore the epistemology of the historical sciences. They show how paleontologists creatively adopt perspectives that link the unfamiliar past with the familiar present through a variety of interlocking, iterative strategies that combine imagination and hard science to discover lost worlds.
Considering science, art, and the materiality of paleontological practice, Currie develops an artifactualist account of this scientific imagination. They explore the metaphysical upshots of paleontological practice, the deeply modal nature of paleontological knowledge, and how the science of the deep past is about deep possibility. Currie compares our knowledge of the past to our knowledge of the future, arguing that the peculiarity of the future profoundly limits our capacity to know it.
The Science of Lost Worlds is an exploration of palaeontological practice and reasoning that reflects and amplifies the ability of the deep past to generate wonder.
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