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Author : Herbert Stachowiak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783787307340
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Pragmatic Tendencies in Scientific Theory written by Herbert Stachowiak and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matti Sintonen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatics of Scientific Explanation written by Matti Sintonen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claus Beisbart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111019802
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances written by Claus Beisbart and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of his seminal monograph "The scientific image", Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in philosophy of science. In this book, other philosophers with various outlooks critically discuss his work on theories, empiricism and philosophical stances. The book starts with a new article by van Fraassen on his preferred account of theories, the so-called semantic view. This account is now 50 years old, and van Fraassen takes this anniversary as an opportunity to review the account, its history and the philosophical discussion about it. In the main part of the book, Nancy Cartwright, Finnur Dellsén, Matthias Egg, Steven French, Michael Friedman, Milena Ivanova and Michela Massimi discuss van Fraassen's contributions to philosophy. Three chapters focus on his engagement with realism (French, Friedman, Ivanova). Others study his voluntarism (Cartwright) and his view on representation (Massimi). Finally, there are contributions about his elaboration of empiricism (Dellsén) and his proposal to consider philosophical positions as stances (Egg). The volume includes a laudatio written by Steven French and finishes with a reply by van Fraassen to his critics.
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501895
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics written by Keith Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.
Author : Gerhard Zecha
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007246
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse written by Gerhard Zecha and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Rationalism has become an influential philosophy in many areas including a great number of scientific disciplines. Yet only few studies have been devoted to the role of the philosophy of Sir Karl Popper in the vast field of education. This volume undertakes to fill this gap. Leading scholars in the educational science and in the philosophy of education have critically written for this volume in an attempt to elaborate Popper's methodological and socio-political views and confront them with a globally relevant spectrum of scientific objectives and cultural values. Among the topics discussed are moral values, education for freedom and its consequences for the student, and the critical attitude in political education. Attention is also paid to the historiography of this significant philosophical movement. Regarding pedagogical research, the empirical paradigm, the falsificatory approach to educational research, the complex relationship between educational theory and practice as well as the problem of value-neutrality in educational science are objects of critical analysis.
Author : Ghita Holmström-Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401704392
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Action Theory Volume 1: Individual Action written by Ghita Holmström-Hintikka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Action Theory, Volume I (Individual Action) is concerned with topics in philosophical action theory such as reasons and causes of action, intentions, freedom of will and of action, omissions and norms in legal and ethical contexts, as well as activity, passivity and competence from medical points of view. Cognitive trying, freedom of the will and agent causation are challenges in the discussion on computers in action. The Volume consists of contributions by leading experts in the field written specifically for this volume. No comparable volume currently exists.
Author : Amanda Guillán
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319630431
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction written by Amanda Guillán and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science. The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s system of philosophy. She presents readers with a comprehensive philosophico-methodological analysis of this important work. Her research takes into account different thematic realms: semantic, logical, epistemological, methodological, ontological, axiological, and ethical. The book features three, thematic-parts: I) General Coordinates, Semantic Features and Logical Components of Scientific Prediction; II) Predictive Knowledge and Predictive Processes in Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism; and III) From Reality to Values: Ontological Features, Axiological Elements, and Ethical Aspects of Scientific Prediction. This insightful analysis offers a critical reconstruction of Rescher’s philosophy. The system he created is often characterized as pragmatic idealism that is open to some realist elements. He is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism who has made a great deal of contributions to the study of this topic. This area is crucial for science and it has been little considered in the philosophy of science.
Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441167285
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism without Foundations 2nd ed written by Joseph Margolis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America's leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity. Twenty years after it was first published to great acclaim, Margolis has updated Pragmatism Without Foundations in the light of his most recent work and the development of pragmatism in the intellectual world. This second edition includes an updated preface and a brand new epilogue addressing these developments and their implications for his earlier work.
Author : Michael G. Parker
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161487118
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief written by Michael G. Parker and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions from an international conference held December 11-13, 2002, at the Institute for Philosophy of Religion at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Author : J. Faye
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137389834
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Scientific Thinking written by J. Faye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
Author : Russell B. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415288460
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism written by Russell B. Goodman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents key texts in and about pragmatism, from its origins in nineteenth century America to its contemporary revival as an international and multi-disciplinary phenomenon.
Author : Charles William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Logical Positivism, Pragmatism and Scientific Empiricism written by Charles William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Newton C. A. da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019515651X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Science and Partial Truth written by Newton C. A. da Costa and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. This framework describes issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.
Author : Léna Soler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317935365
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science written by Léna Soler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological. Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued to increase and had an indelible influence in the various fields of science studies. No doubt, the practice turn changed our conceptions and approaches of science, but what did it really teach us? What does it mean to study scientific practices? What are the general lessons, implications, and new challenges? This volume explores questions about the practice turn using both case studies and theoretical analysis. The case studies examine empirical and mathematical sciences, including the engineering sciences. The volume promotes interactions between acknowledged experts from different, often thought of as conflicting, orientations. It presents contributions in conjunction with critical commentaries that put the theses and assumptions of the former in perspective. Overall, the book offers a unique and diverse range of perspectives on the meanings, methods, lessons, and challenges associated with the practice turn.
Author : Scott F. Aikin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351811312
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy written by Scott F. Aikin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that originates in the work of the "classical" pragmatisms of Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, uninterruptedly develops through the later 20th Century pragmatists (C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, Nelson Goodman, W. V. O. Quine), and continues through the present day. According to Aikin and Talisse, pragmatism is fundamentally a metaphilosophical proposal – a methodological suggestion for carrying inquiry forward amidst ongoing deep disagreement over the aims, limitations, and possibilities of philosophy. This conception of pragmatism not only runs contrary to the dominant self-understanding among cotemporary philosophers who identify with the classical pragmatists, it also holds important implications for pragmatist philosophy. In particular, Aikin and Talisse show that their version of pragmatism involves distinctive claims about epistemic justification, moral disagreement, democratic citizenship, and the conduct of inquiry. The chapters combine detailed engagements with the history and development of pragmatism with original argumentation aimed at a philosophical audience beyond pragmatism.
Author : Matti Sintonen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400710461
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Realism in Action written by Matti Sintonen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the topics discussed by these leading participants.
Author : Sandra B. Rosenthal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272603
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism and Phenomenology written by Sandra B. Rosenthal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the philosophic world today, pragmatism and phenomenology can be found standing at a crossroad. Though each has arrived there via divergent paths and for very different reasons, the direction that each takes in the future may be significantly influenced by the suggestions the other has to offer. The intention of this book is to parallel the two positions in such a way that basic points of convergence and divergence are noted and accounted for in terms of their systematic significance. Each position is presented in such a manner that philosophers engrossed in one movement can enter into the other in a way which allows a real encounter to develop.
