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Author : T. Case
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 117766951X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Physical realism written by T. Case and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Case
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Physical Realism written by Thomas Case and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Robert Sehon
Publisher : Bradford Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Teleological Realism written by Scott Robert Sehon and published by Bradford Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-reductionist account of mind and agency claiming that common-sense psychological explanations are teleological and not causal. Using the language of common-sense psychology (CSP), we explain human behavior by citing its reason or purpose, and this is central to our understanding of human beings as agents. On the other hand, since human beings are physical objects, human behavior should also be explicable in the language of physical science, in which causal accounts cast human beings as collections of physical particles. CSP talk of mind and agency, however, does not seem to mesh well with the language of physical science. In Teleological Realism, Scott Sehon argues that CSP explanations are not causal but teleological--that they cite the purpose or goal of the behavior in question rather than an antecedent state that caused the behavior. CSP explanations of behavior, Sehon claims, are answering a question different from that answered by physical science explanations, and, accordingly, CSP explanations and physical science explanations are independent of one another. Common-sense facts about mind and agency can thus be independent of the physical facts about human beings, and, contrary to the views of most philosophers of mind in recent decades, common-sense psychology will not be subsumed by physical science. Sehon defends his non-reductionist account of mind and agency in clear and nontechnical language. He carefully distinguishes his view from forms of "strong naturalism" that would seem to preclude it. And he evaluates key objections to teleological realism, including those posed by Donald Davidson's influential article "Actions, Reasons and Causes" and some put forth by more recent proponents of causal theories of action. CSP, Sehon argues, has a different realm than does physical science; the normative notions that are central to CSP are not reducible to physical facts and laws.
Author : Roy Wood Sellars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Physical Realism written by Roy Wood Sellars and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W Fowler
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811243484
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Randomness And Realism: Encounters With Randomness In The Scientific Search For Physical Reality written by John W Fowler and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randomness is an active element relevant to all scientific activities. The book explores the way in which randomness suffuses the human experience, starting with everyday chance events, followed by developments into modern probability theory, statistical mechanics, scientific data analysis, quantum mechanics, and quantum gravity. An accessible introduction to these theories is provided as a basis for going into deeper topics.Fowler unveils the influence of randomness in the two pillars of science, measurement and theory. Some emphasis is placed on the need and methods for optimal characterization of uncertainty. An example of the cost of neglecting this is the St. Petersburg Paradox, a theoretical game of chance with an infinite expected payoff value. The role of randomness in quantum mechanics reveals another particularly interesting finding: that in order for the physical universe to function as it does and permit conscious beings within it to enjoy sanity, irreducible randomness is necessary at the quantum level.The book employs a certain level of mathematics to describe physical reality in a more precise way that avoids the tendency of nonmathematical descriptions to be occasionally misleading. Thus, it is most readily digested by young students who have taken at least a class in introductory calculus, or professional scientists and engineers curious about the book's topics as a result of hearing about them in popular media. Readers not inclined to savor equations should be able to skip certain technical sections without losing the general flow of ideas. Still, it is hoped that even readers who usually avoid equations will give those within these pages a chance, as they may be surprised at how potentially foreboding concepts fall into line when one makes a legitimate attempt to follow a succession of mathematical implications.
Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487903
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Realism & Antirealism written by William P. Alston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. In this volume of original essays, a group of philosophers explores the ongoing controversy.
Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674749450
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Realism with a Human Face written by Hilary Putnam and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's great philosophers says the time has come to reform philosophy. Putnam calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once did claim to represent. His goal is to embed philosophy in social life.
Author : Brian Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131749220X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism written by Brian Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a major statement on the dominant philosophy of science by one of the world's leading metaphysicians. Brian Ellis's new book develops the metaphysics of scientific realism to the point where it begins to take on the characteristics of a first philosophy. As most people understand it, scientific realism is not yet such a theory. It is not sufficiently general, and has no plausible applications in fields other than the well-established sciences. Nevertheless, Ellis demonstrates that the original arguments that led to scientific realism may be deployed more widely than they originally were to fill out a more complete picture of what there is. Ellis shows that realistic theories of quantum mechanics, time, causality and human freedom can all be developed satisfactorily, and moral theory can be recast to fit within this comprehensive metaphysical framework.
Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691011875
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Realism and Truth written by Michael Devitt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.
Author : Guido Bonino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519307
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Defending Realism written by Guido Bonino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, first presented at an international conference held at the University of Urbino, Italy, in 2011, explore the different senses of realism, arguing both for and against its distinctive theses and considering these senses from a historical point of view. The first sense is the metaphysical thesis that whatever exists does so, and has the properties it has, independently of whether it is the object of a person's thought or perception. The second sense of realism is epistemological, wherein realism claims that, in some cases, it is possible to know the world as it exists in and of itself. A third sense, which has become known as ontological realism, states that universals exist as well as individuals. The essays collected here make new contributions to these fundamental philosophical issues, which have largely defined western analytic philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to the present day.
Author : Stuart Brock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317494261
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Realism and Anti-Realism written by Stuart Brock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a bewildering variety of ways the terms "realism" and "anti-realism" have been used in philosophy and furthermore the different uses of these terms are only loosely connected with one another. Rather than give a piecemeal map of this very diverse landscape, the authors focus on what they see as the core concept: realism about a particular domain is the view that there are facts or entities distinctive of that domain, and their existence and nature is in some important sense objective and mind-independent. The authors carefully set out and explain the different realist and anti-realist positions and arguments that occur in five key domains: science, ethics, mathematics, modality and fictional objects. For each area the authors examine the various styles of argument in support of and against realism and anti-realism, show how these different positions and arguments arise in very different domains, evaluate their success within these fields, and draw general conclusions about these assorted strategies. Error theory, fictionalism, non-cognitivism, relativism and response-dependence are taken as the most important positions in opposition to the realist and these are explored in depth. Suitable for advanced level undergraduates, the book offers readers a clear introduction to a subject central to much contemporary work in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language.
Author : Joe Frank Jones
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761819950
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)
Download or read book A Modest Realism written by Joe Frank Jones and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do words have to do with the world? Do our concepts make the world the way it is for us? If concepts do make the world what it is for us, is this making complete, without residue of a natural world, and how does this making occur? Is there a real world to which word and concepts refer that anchors their meaning? What is the role of the imagination in making words have meaning? Is understanding embodied, conceptual, or both? A Modest Realism explores these questions through its examination of the foundations of articulatable experience. It joins language and experience in a non-essentialist realism, while avoiding the non sequiturs and practical impossibilities of most twentieth century postmodern philosophers.
Author : Ilkka Niiniluoto
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191519405
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Critical Scientific Realism written by Ilkka Niiniluoto and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys the different varieties of realism in ontology, semantics, epistemology, theory construction, and methodology. He then sets out his own original version, and defends it against competing theories in the philosophy of science. Niiniluoto's critical scientific realism is founded upon the notion of truth as correspondence between language and reality, and characterizes scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness. This makes it possible not only to take seriously, but also to make precise, the troublesome idea that scientific theories typically are false but nevertheless close to the truth.
Author : George Trumbull Ladd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Philosophy written by George Trumbull Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131769970X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Realism, Science, and Pragmatism written by Kenneth R. Westphal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmatism, epistemology, and theory of perception. Questions concerning realism are as current and as ancient as philosophy itself; this volume explores relations between different positions designated as ‘realism’ by examining specific cases in point, drawn from a broad range of systematic problems and historical views, from ancient Greek philosophy through the present. The first section examines the context of the project; contributions systematically engage the historical background of philosophical realism, re-examining key works of Aristotle, Descartes, Quine, and others. The following two sections epitomize the central tension within current debates: scientific realism and pragmatism. These contributions address contemporary questions of scientific realism and the reality of the objects of science, and consider whether, how or the extent to which realism and pragmatism are compatible. With an editorial introduction by Kenneth R. Westphal, these fourteen original essays provide wide-ranging, salient insights into the status of realism today.
Author : Thomas Whittaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays and Notices written by Thomas Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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