Modal Empiricism

Author : Quentin Ruyant
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030723491

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Modal Empiricism by Quentin Ruyant Pdf

This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view that the aim of science is to provide theories that correctly delimit, in a unified way, the range of experiences that are naturally possible given our position in the world. The view is associated with a pragmatic account of scientific representation and an original notion of situated modalities, together with an inductive epistemology for modalities. It purports to provide a faithful account of scientific practice and of its impressive achievements, and defuses the main motivations for scientific realism. More generally, Modal Empiricism purports to be the precise articulation of a pragmatist stance towards science. This book is of interest to any philosopher involved in the debate on scientific realism, or interested in how to properly understand the content, aim and achievements of science.

Author : Bob Fischer,Felipe Leon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319443096

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Modal Epistemology After Rationalism by Bob Fischer,Felipe Leon Pdf

This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.

Author : P. Dicken
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230281820

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Constructive Empiricism by P. Dicken Pdf

Constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological framework in which one should debate the aim of science. This is the focus of this book – not with scientific truth, but with how one should argue about scientific truth.

Author : Ylwa Sjölin Wirling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9173469831

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Modal Empiricism Made Difficult by Ylwa Sjölin Wirling Pdf

Author : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,Duško Prelević
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000840438

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Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,Duško Prelević Pdf

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.

Author : Bas C. Van Fraassen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226106540

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Images of Science by Bas C. Van Fraassen Pdf

"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."—Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters

Author : Mark Amadeus Notturno
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004451520

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Perspectives on Psychologism by Mark Amadeus Notturno Pdf

Author : James Ladyman,Don Ross,David Spurrett,John Collier
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191534751

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Every Thing Must Go by James Ladyman,Don Ross,David Spurrett,John Collier Pdf

Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundamental physics ('ontic structural realism'), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ('rainforest realism'), can be used to unify physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics itself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects. Every Thing Must Go also assesses the role of information theory and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science are explored, including the implications for the realism vs. empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural kinds.

Author : Tamar Szabó Gendler,John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192569769

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Oxford Studies in Epistemology by Tamar Szabó Gendler,John Hawthorne Pdf

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; - new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; - foundational questions in decision-theory; - confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; - topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; - topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; - work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Author : Ronald N. Giere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226292088

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Science Without Laws by Ronald N. Giere Pdf

"Science without Laws thus stakes out a middle ground in these debates by demonstrating a more powerful way of seeing science."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bob Fischer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319491271

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Modal Justification via Theories by Bob Fischer Pdf

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she believes that claim on the basis of that theory, and (c) she has no defeaters for her belief in that claim. The book has two parts. In the first, the author motivates TEM, sets out the view in detail, and defends it against a number of objections. In the second, the author considers whether TEM is worth accepting. To argue that it is, the author sets out criteria for choosing between modal epistemologies, concluding that TEM has a number of important virtues. However, the author also concedes that TEM is cautious: it probably implies that we are not justified in believing some interesting modal claims that we might take ourselves to be justified in believing. This raises a question about TEM's relationship to Peter van Inwagen's modal skepticism, which the author explores in detail. As it turns out, TEM offers a better route to modal skepticism than the one that van Inwagen provides. But rather than being a liability, the author argues that this is a further advantage of the view. Moreover, he argues that other popular modal epistemologies do not fare better: they cannot easily secure more extensive modal justification than TEM. The book concludes by clarifying TEM’s relationship to the other modal epistemologies on offer, contending that TEM need not be a rival to those views, but can instead be a supplement to them.

Author : Eugen Fischer,John Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317500261

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Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism by Eugen Fischer,John Collins Pdf

Experimental philosophy is one of the most exciting and controversial philosophical movements today. This book explores how it is reshaping thought about philosophical method. Experimental philosophy imports experimental methods and findings from psychology into philosophy. These fresh resources can be used to develop and defend both armchair methods and naturalist approaches, on an empirical basis. This outstanding collection brings together leading proponents of this new meta-philosophical naturalism, from within and beyond experimental philosophy. They explore how the empirical study of philosophically relevant intuition and cognition transforms traditional philosophical approaches and facilitates fresh ones. Part One examines important uses of traditional "armchair" methods which are not threatened by experimental work and develops empirically informed accounts of such methods that can potentially stand up to experimental scrutiny. Part Two analyses different uses and rationales of experimental methods in several areas of philosophy and addresses the key methodological challenges to experimental philosophy: Do its experiments target the intuitions that matter in philosophy? And how can they support conclusions about the rights and wrongs of philosophical views? Essential reading for students of experimental philosophy and metaphilosophy, Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism will also interest students and researchers in related areas such as epistemology and the philosophies of language, perception, mind and action, science and psychology.

Author : Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107077294

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An Introduction to Metametaphysics by Tuomas E. Tahko Pdf

This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.

Author : Paul Studtmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739142578

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Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics by Paul Studtmann Pdf

Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics develops and defends an empiricist solution to the problem of metaphysics, then examines the implications of such a solution for skeptical arguments and the is-ought gap. At the heart of the solution is an empirically verifiable empiricist view of the a priori.

Author : Jared Warren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780190086169

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Shadows of Syntax by Jared Warren Pdf

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth? This volume revitalizes conventionalism as an answer to this question. Conventionalism takes logical and mathematical truth to have their source in linguistic conventions. This was an extremely popular view in the early 20th century, but it was never worked out in detail and is now almost universally rejected in mainstream philosophical circles. In Shadows of Syntax, Jared Warren offers the first book-length treatment and defense of a combined conventionalist theory of logic and mathematics. He argues that our conventions, in the form of syntactic rules of language use, are perfectly suited to explain the truth, necessity, and a priority of logical and mathematical claims. In Part I, Warren explains exactly what conventionalism amounts to and what linguistic conventions are. Part II develops an unrestricted inferentialist theory of the meanings of logical constants that leads to logical conventionalism. This conventionalist theory is elaborated in discussions of logical pluralism, the epistemology of logic, and of the influential objections that led to the historical demise of conventionalism. Part III aims to extend conventionalism from logic to mathematics. Unlike logic, mathematics involves both ontological commitments and a rich notion of truth that cannot be generated by any algorithmic process. To address these issues Warren develops conventionalist-friendly but independently plausible theories of both metaontology and mathematical truth. Finally, Part IV steps back to address big picture worries and meta-worries about conventionalism. This book develops and defends a unified theory of logic and mathematics according to which logical and mathematical truths are reflections of our linguistic rules, mere shadows of syntax.