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Author : Roy Wood Sellars
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
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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 : Thomas Case
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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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 : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198745583
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Science written by Samir Okasha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.
Author : J J C Smart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028028
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Philosophy and Scientific Realism written by J J C Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963. In an introductory chapter the author argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and that it should concern itself with outlining a scientifically plausible world view. Early chapters deal with phenomenalism and the reality of theoretical entities, and with the relation between the physical and biological sciences. Free will, issues of time and space and man’s place in nature are covered in later chapters.
Author : Keith Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198755368
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour written by Keith Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Naive Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment. Keith Allen argues that a naive realist theory of colour best explains how colours appear to perceiving subjects, and that this view is not undermined by our modern scientific understanding of the world.
Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586381
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing International Conference, 1992
Author : Case Thomas
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314255393
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Physical Realism, Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense written by Case Thomas and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Scott Robert Sehon
Publisher : Bradford Books
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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 : Thomas Case
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377438542
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense written by Thomas Case and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas Case
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ISBN 13 : 9781330482933
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Physical Realism written by Thomas Case and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy From the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense 'Natural Philosophy, as now regarded, treats generally of the physical universe, and deals fearlessly alike with quantities too great to be distinctly conceived, and with quantities almost infinitely too small to be perceived even with the most powerful microscopes; such as, for instance, distances through which the light of stars or nebulae, though moving at the rate of about 130,000 miles per second, takes many years to travel; or the size of the particles of water, whose number in a single drop may, as we have reason to believe, amount to somewhere about 10, or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Yet we successfully inquire not only into the composition of the atmospheres of these distant stars, but into the number and properties of these water-particles; nay, even into the laws by which they act upon one another. This quotation from Professor Tail's 'Recent Advances in Physical Science' is a recognition of the reality of the insensible, and of its knowledge by the natural philosopher, as facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : N. Rescher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400939051
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by N. Rescher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the object of the present book, which will recon sider the newer concerns about scientific realism in the context of these older philosophical themes. Historically, realism concerns itself with the real existence of things that do not "meet the eye" - with suprasensible entities that lie beyond the reach of human perception. In medieval times, discussions about realism focused upon universals. Recognizing that there are physical objects such as cats and triangular objects and red tomatoes, the medievels debated whether such "abstract objects" as cathood and triangularity and redness also exist by way of having a reality indepen dent of the concretely real things that exhibit them. Three fundamen tally different positions were defended: (1) Nominalism. Abstracta have no independent existence as such: they only "exist" in and through the objects that exhibit them. Only particulars (individual substances) exist. Abstract "objects" are existents in name only, mere thought fictions by whose means we address concrete particular things. (2) Realism. Abstracta have an independent existence as such.
Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135858950
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Realism and the Aim of Science written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science. Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge: science aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or justify, any theory to be true, not even if is a true theory. Science must continue to question and criticise all its theories, even those that happen to be true. Realism and the Aim of Science presents Popper’s mature statement on scientific knowledge and offers important insights into his thinking on problems of method within science.
Author : Roy Bhaskar
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603536
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book A Realist Theory of Science written by Roy Bhaskar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as 'Critical Realism', which is both intellectually diverse and international in scope, has developed on the basis of key concepts outlined in the text. The book has been hailed in many quarters as a 'Copernican Revolution' in the study of the nature of science, and the implications of its account have been far-reaching for many fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Author : Derek Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139465058
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Making Prehistory written by Derek Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this book Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.
Author : Thomas Case
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289453831
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Physical Realism written by Thomas Case and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Thomas Case
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293885970
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Physical Realism, Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense - Primary Source Edition written by Thomas Case and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Thomas CASE (President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.)
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Total Pages : 387 pages
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Download or read book Physical Realism; being an analytical philosophy from the physical objects of science to the physical data of sense written by Thomas CASE (President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
