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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030411249
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science written by Amihud Gilead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.

A Panenmentalist Philosophy of Literature, or How Does Actual Reality Imitate Pure Possibilities?

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534553
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book A Panenmentalist Philosophy of Literature, or How Does Actual Reality Imitate Pure Possibilities? written by Amihud Gilead and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the literary imagination, literary possibilities, and actual reality poses a major philosophical problem in the field of the metaphysics of literature. This detailed analysis of some literary masterpieces, by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, demonstrates that actual reality actualizes or “imitates” literary pure possibilities. As such, these masterpieces should be treated not as romans a clef, but, instead, as paradigm-cases on whose basis we grasp and understand actual reality.

Readings in the Philosophy of Science

Author : Baruch A. Brody
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Philosophy of Science written by Baruch A. Brody and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1970 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition (previously 1971) of an anthology for an undergraduate course. Comprises four parts: theories, explanation and causality, confirmation of scientific hypotheses, selected problems of particular sciences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Philosophy and Scientific Realism

Author : J J C Smart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028028
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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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.

Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030841979
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes written by Amihud Gilead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

The Philosophy of Science

Author : David Papineau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science written by David Papineau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributesan introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading. The contributors ask whether we are justified in believing scientific theories and what attitude we should take to them if we are not. Although few philosophers seriously question the existence of everyday objects like trees and tables, many have real doubts about viruses, electrons, andgravitational waves. The last two decades have seen important new work in the philosophy of science, stimulated by sceptical attitudes towards scientific theories. Scientific realist have in turn countered with arguments of their own, resulting in a wide-ranging debate drawing from many differentphilosophical disciplines. The Philosophy of Science bridges the gap between both sides of the argument, including articles ondifferent species of realism and anti-realism, the underdetermination of theory by evidence, the lessons of the history of science, naturalized epistemology of science, and Bayesianmethodology.

Frontiers of Science and Philosophy

Author : Robert G. Colodny
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975602
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Science and Philosophy written by Robert G. Colodny and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six essays by noted philosophers of science include the following topics: explanation in science and in history; philosophy and the scientific image of man; psychoanalysis and parapsychology; the conceptual basis of the biological sciences; the nature of time; and problems of microphysics.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Author : Kent W. Staley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316094375
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science written by Kent W. Staley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides readers by gradual steps through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley shows how seemingly abstract philosophical issues are relevant to important aspects of scientific practice. Structured in two parts, the book first tackles the central concepts of the philosophy of science, such as the problem of induction, falsificationism, and underdetermination, and important figures and movements, such as the logical empiricists, Thomas Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend. The second part turns to contemporary debates in the philosophy of science, such as scientific realism, explanation, the role of values in science, the different views of scientific inference, and probability. This broad yet detailed overview will give readers a strong grounding whilst also providing opportunities for further exploration. It will be of particular interest to students of philosophy, the philosophy of science, and science.

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030548104
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens written by Amihud Gilead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza’s philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza’s concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza’s philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza’s system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza’s reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply “entities of imagination.” The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza’s Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza’s philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

A Realist Philosophy of Science

Author : J. Aronson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349173789
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book A Realist Philosophy of Science written by J. Aronson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-02-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the nature of scientific theory. The central topicic of inquiry concerns how it is that theories are able to supply us with powerful and elegant explanations of puzzling phenomena that often confront the scientist and layman alike. It is argued that an answer to this question supplies us with an account of how theories achieve a variety of tasks such as the prediction and organization of data, including how they support a very important class of claims known int he literature as counterfactual conditionals. The book begins by presenting a critical survey of past, classic formulations of the nature of scientific theory which are promient in philosophy of sciences circles today. These include the doctrines of logical positivism, Hempel's Deductive-Nomological model of explanation, Hanson's gestalt approach to understanding and observation, Kuhn's sociology of science, and others. After presenting the reader with a critical examination of the above approaches to the nature of scientific theory, the author then presents his own views. His approach is essentially an ontological one. Ontology is usually characterized as the sudy of the nature of the most fundamental constituents of the universe. The major contention of the book is that theories are essentially deptictions of the nature of things, and that it is this feature which accounts for their ability to explain, predict and organize a vast array of data. In the tradition of more recent versions of scientific realism that have occured in the literature, the author attempts to show that the very confirmation of a tgheory depends on its ability to refer to the fundamental constituents of nature. It is argued that science can function only from an ontological point of view. In order to show this, the student is presented with a model of how theories are confirmed which is then cojoined with a model of the nature of scientific explanation. In so doing, the author ends up fostering a view of science which is rather controversial to twentieth-century philosophical tradition, namely that science is really metaphysics in disguise but a metaphysics which can ultimately be judged by empirical standards. Such an approch to science characterizes the modern-day scientist as an old-fashioned natural philosopher.

The Philosophy of Science

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622751140
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific discoveries of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle were considered to be in the realm of "natural philosophy." Today philosophy and science are considered separate disciplines, yet each illuminates and complements the other. Modern philosophers are apt to pose important questions about the logic behind and validity of scientific practices. This comprehensive volume explains how and why philosophical thought is applied to the natural sciences and challenges readers to think in different ways about scientific inquiry.

Philosophy of Science

Author : Geoffrey Gorham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741758
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Science written by Geoffrey Gorham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So the world didn’t end on 10 September 2008: but maybe it got you thinking… The world didn’t end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually? Geoffrey Gorham considers these questions and explores the social and ethical implications of science by linking them to issues facing scientists today: human extinction, extraterrestrial intelligence, space colonization, and more.

The Limits Of Science

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972069
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Limits Of Science written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what we do and can attain. This lies at the core of various debates in the philosophy of science and Rescher's discussion focuses on the question: how far could science go in principle—what are the theoretical limits on science? He concentrates on what science can discover, not what it should discover. He explores in detail the existence of limits or limitations on scientific inquiry, especially those that, in principle, preclude the full realization of the aims of science, as opposed to those that relate to economic obstacles to scientific progress. Rescher also places his argument within the politics of the day, where "strident calls of ideological extremes surround us," ranging from the exaggeration that "science can do anything"—to the antiscientism that views science as a costly diversion we would be well advised to abandon. Rescher offers a middle path between these two extremes and provides an appreciation of the actual powers and limitations of science, not only to philosophers of science but also to a larger, less specialized audience.

The Rationality of Science

Author : W. Newton-Smith
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rationality of Science written by W. Newton-Smith and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional philosophical accounts of the scientific enterprise represent it as a paradigm of institutionalized rationality. The scientist is held to possess a special method which he disinterestedly applied, generating an accumulation of scientific knowledge about the world, and the evolution of science is seen as being determined by the rational deliberations of scientists and not by psychological or sociological factors. More recently, various philosophers, historians and sociologists of science have held that this rational model is no longer tenable. Some have claimed that there is no such thing as a scientific method or scientific progress, and that theories are incommensurable and so there is no possibility of choice between alternative theories. The more extreme non-rationalists seek to explain scientific change exclusively in terms of psychological and sociological factors. In this book, the author explores the controversy between the two approaches and presents a strongly critical and independent view of both rationalists like Popper and Lakatos and non-rationalists such as Kuhn and Feyerabend. He goes on to develop his own account of the scientific enterprise--temperate rationalism, a vindication of the rationalist approach to science and of a realist construal of theories.--

Science Ideated

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789046696
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Science Ideated written by Bernardo Kastrup and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with 'scientific' materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there. Coupled with the inability of materialist neuroscience to explain consciousness, this is forcing both science and philosophy to contemplate alternative worldviews. Analytic idealism the notion that reality, while equally amenable to scientific inquiry, is fundamentally mental is a leading contender to replace 'scientific' materialism. In this book, the broad body of empirical evidence and reasoning in favor of analytic idealism is reviewed in an accessible manner. The book brings together a number of highly influential essays previously published by major media outlets such as Scientific American and the Institute of Art and Ideas. The essays have been revised and improved, while two neverbeforepublished essays have been added. The resulting argument anticipates a historically imminent transition to a scientific worldview that, while elegantly accommodating all known empirical evidence and predictive models, regards mind not matter as the ground of all reality.

Science and Values

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520057432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Science and Values written by Larry Laudan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.

Philosophy of Science

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415891769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Science written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New features of the third edition include more coverage of the history of the philosophy of science, more fully developed material on the metaphysics of causal and physical necessity, more background on the contrast between empiricism and rationalism in science, and new material on the structure of theoretical science (with expanded coverage of Newtonian and Darwinian theories and models) and the realism/antirealism controversy."--Provided by publisher.