Global Epistemologies And Philosophies Of Science

Author : David Ludwig,Inkeri Koskinen,Zinhle Mncube,Luana Poliseli,Luis Reyes-Galindo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000413816

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Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science by David Ludwig,Inkeri Koskinen,Zinhle Mncube,Luana Poliseli,Luis Reyes-Galindo Pdf

In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.

Author : Clifford Alan Hooker
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0887063152

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A Realistic Theory of Science by Clifford Alan Hooker Pdf

This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition, pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of science both as research and as culture. It summarizes the present confused and highly polarized status of the orthodox philosophy of science. It exhibits clearly the fundamental metaphysical and global presuppositions and confusions that have led to this status. It provides a positive point of view from which progress can be made toward understanding science as research done by real scientists rather than science as exemplifying some prior epistemological program created by philosophers. And it leads directly to an understanding of science as a dynamic force within our society with consequences for the environment and public policy.

Author : Jeffrey Foss
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781551116242

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Science and the World by Jeffrey Foss Pdf

This new anthology includes both classic and contemporary readings on the methods and scope of science. Jeffrey Foss depicts science in a broadly humanistic context, contending that it is philosophically interesting because it has reshaped nearly all aspects of human culture—and in so doing has reshaped humanity as well. While providing a strong introduction to epistemological and metaphysical issues in science, this text goes beyond the traditional topics, enlarging the scope of philosophical engagement with science. Substantial introductions and critical questions are provided for each reading.

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401569217

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6 by M. Bunge Pdf

Author : Kevin McCain,Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351336604

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What is Scientific Knowledge? by Kevin McCain,Kostas Kampourakis Pdf

What Is Scientific Knowledge? is a much-needed collection of introductory-level chapters on the epistemology of science. Renowned historians, philosophers, science educators, and cognitive scientists have authored 19 original contributions specifically for this volume. The chapters, accessible for students in both philosophy and the sciences, serve as helpful introductions to the primary debates surrounding scientific knowledge. First-year undergraduates can readily understand the variety of discussions in the volume, and yet advanced students and scholars will encounter chapters rich enough to engage their many interests. The variety and coverage in this volume make it the perfect choice for the primary text in courses on scientific knowledge. It can also be used as a supplemental book in classes in epistemology, philosophy of science, and other related areas. Key features: * an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the epistemology of science for a wide variety of students (both undergraduate- and graduate-level) and researchers * written by an international team of senior researchers and the most promising junior scholars * addresses several questions that students and lay people interested in science may already have, including questions about how scientific knowledge is gained, its nature, and the challenges it faces.

Author : Paul Needham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030402185

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Getting to Know the World Scientifically by Paul Needham Pdf

This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with knowledge and values. Chap. 1 presents the classical conception of knowledge as initiated by the ancient Greeks and elaborated during the development of science, introducing the central concepts of truth, belief and justification. Aspects of the quest for objectivity are taken up in the following two chapters. Moral issues are broached in Chap. 4, which discusses some aspects of the use and abuse of science, taking up the responsibilities of scientists in properly conducting their business and decision-makers in their concerns with the import of science for society. Part 2 contrasts the view of scientific progress as the rejecting of old hypotheses and theories and replacing them with new ones, represented by Karl Popper, with the conception of progress as accumulating knowledge, saving as much as possible from older theories, represented by Pierre Duhem. A concluding chapter defends the natural attitude of taking the theories of modern science to be literally true, i.e. realism, in the face of arguments drawn partly from the history of scientific progress in criticism of this stance.

Author : Moti Mizrahi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538163344

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For and Against Scientism by Moti Mizrahi Pdf

The term “scientism” is used in several ways. It is used to denote an epistemological thesis according to which science is the source of our knowledge about the world and ourselves. Relatedly, it is used to denote a methodological thesis according to which the methods of science are superior to the methods of non-scientific fields or areas of inquiry. It is also used to put forward a metaphysical thesis that what exists is what science says exists. In recent decades, the term “scientism” has acquired a derogatory meaning when it is used in defense of non-scientific ways of knowing. In particular, some philosophers level the charge of “scientism” against those (mostly scientists) who are dismissive of philosophy. Other philosophers, however, embrace scientism, or some variant thereof, and object to the pejorative use of the term. This book critically examines arguments for and against different varieties of scientism in order to answer the central question: Does scientism pose an existential threat to academic philosophy? Or should philosophy become more scientific?

Author : J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400917422

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Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science by J. Nelson Pdf

Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship between science and values.

Author : Diederik Aerts,Bart D'Hooghe,Rik Pinxten,Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814458672

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Worldviews, Science and Us by Diederik Aerts,Bart D'Hooghe,Rik Pinxten,Immanuel Wallerstein Pdf

This volume is part of the “Worldviews, Science and Us” series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the “Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews” research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research, over the period of time between 2005 to 2010. Further information about this research community and a full list of the associated international research centers can be found at http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/res/worldviews/ Contents:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society (Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten & Immanuel Wallerstein)Why Consciousness has No Plural (Koen Stroeken)The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World (Rik Pinxten)An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (Not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Jeroen Van Bouwel)Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions (Patricia Frericks & Robert Maier)Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview (Hans Alma & Adri Smaling)Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology (Lieve Orye)The Structures of Knowledge in a World in Transition (Richard E Lee)On Bridging Theory and Practice in the Perspective of History (Ellen Van Keer)Addressing the Sustainability Challenge Beyond the Fact-Value Dichotomy: A Call for Engaged Knowledge (Gert Goeminne, Filip Kolen & Erik Paredis) Readership: Students, professionals and the general public. Keywords:Worldviews;Interdisciplinarity;Cultures and SocietyKey Features:The authors analyse the way in which worlds, cultures and society interrelate from the viewpoint of diverse scientific disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, sociology, ethics, cultural studies and archeologyThe content of the book contributes in an essential way to the growth and integration of actual human worldviewsFeatures new papers of specialists in their field

Author : R. Tuomela
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401089051

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Science, Action, and Reality by R. Tuomela Pdf

Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science seri ously as the best method for getting to know the ontological aspects of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. This brand of realism is "tough" in matters of ontology but "soft" in matters of semantics and epistemology. An ancestor of the book was published in Finnish under the title Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus (Gaudeamus, 1983). That book is a shortish undergraduate-level monograph. However, as some research-level chapters have been added, the present book is perhaps best regarded as suited for more advanced readers. I completed the book while my stay at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a Visiting Professor under the Exchange Program between the Universities of Wisconsin and Helsinki. I gratefully acknowledge this support. I also wish to thank Juhani Saalo and Martti Kuokkanen for comments on the manuscript and for editorial help. Dr Matti Sintonen translated the Finnish ancestor of this book into English, to be used as a partial basis for this work. His translation was supported by a grant from Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden edistamisvarat. Finally, and as usual, I wish to thank Mrs.

Author : Jane Duran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135024895

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Worlds of Knowing by Jane Duran Pdf

Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Western philosophical and feminist ideas, yet avoids facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her book is powerful, comprehensive, Pnd brave. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and history.

Author : Peter Caws
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052091287X

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Yorick's World by Peter Caws Pdf

Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality. Caws's work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick's World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.

Author : R. Nola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400928770

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Relativism and Realism in Science by R. Nola Pdf

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.

Author : P. Bieri,Lorenz Krüger,R.-P. Horstmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400994102

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Transcendental Arguments and Science by P. Bieri,Lorenz Krüger,R.-P. Horstmann Pdf

The goal of the present volume is to discuss the notion of a 'conceptual framework' or 'conceptual scheme', which has been dominating much work in the analysis and justification of knowledge in recent years. More specifi cally, this volume is designed to clarify the contrast between two competing approaches in the area of problems indicated by this notion: On the one hand, we have the conviction, underlying much present-day work in the philosophy of science, that the best we can hope for in the justifi cation of empirical knowledge is to reconstruct the conceptual means actually employed by science, and to develop suitable models for analyzing conceptual change involved in the progress of science. This view involves the assumption that we should stop taking foundational questions of epistemology seriously and discard once and for all the quest for uncontrovertible truth. The result ing program of justifying epistemic claims by subsequently describing patterns of inferentially connected concepts as they are at work in actual science is closely connected with the idea of naturalizing epistemology, with concep tual relativism, and with a pragmatic interpretation of knowledge. On the other hand, recent epistemology tends to claim that no subsequent reconstruction of actually employed conceptual frameworks is sufficient for providing epistemic justification for our beliefs about the world. This second claim tries to resist the naturalistic and pragmatic approach to epistemology and insists on taking the epistemological sceptic seriously.

Author : Mario BUNGE
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9027716358

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6 by Mario BUNGE Pdf