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Author : Alexander Bird
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199227013
Bird, a world-leader in the field, offers an original approach to key issues in philosophy. He discusses hot topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of science.
Author : Carveth Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243638191
Author : Joseph Keim Campbell,Michael O'Rourke,Matthew H. Slater
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262015936
Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers. Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should "carve nature at its joints." But is nature really "jointed"? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification. The contributors consider such topics as the relevance of natural kinds in inductive inference; the role of natural kinds in natural laws; the nature of fundamental properties; the naturalness of boundaries; the metaphysics and epistemology of biological kinds; and the relevance of biological kinds to certain questions in ethics. Carving Nature at Its Joints offers both breadth and thematic unity, providing a sampling of state-of-the-art work in contemporary analytic philosophy that will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars and students concerned with classification.
Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438459295
Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism. Nature as Sacred Ground explores a metaphysics for religious naturalism. Donald A. Crosby discusses major aspects of reality implicit in his ongoing explication of Religion of Nature, a religious outlook that holds the natural world to be only world, one with no supernatural domains, presences, or powers behind it. Nature as thus envisioned is far more than just a system of facts and factual relations. It also has profoundly important valuative dimensions, including what Crosby regards as natures intrinsically sacred value. The search for comprehensive metaphysical clarity and understanding is a substantial part of this works undertaking. Yet this endeavor also reminds us that, while it is good to think deeply and systematically about major features of reality and their relations to one another, we also need to reflect tirelessly about how to respond to metaphysical concepts that call for decision and action.
Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351233804
This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems.
Author : Brian Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489498
In "The Philosophy of Nature," Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent work has been done to revive interest in essentialism and "The Philosophy of Nature" is a distinctive contribution to this lively current debate. Brian Ellis exposes the philosophical and scientific credentials of the prevailing Humean metaphysic as less than compelling and makes the case for new essentialism as an alternative metaphysical perspective in lucid and unambiguous terms. This book develops this alternative metaphysic and considers the consequences for philosophy, and for some other areas of investigation, of working with such a metaphysic. Ellis argues that these consequences are profound and that a new essentialism provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature for a modern scientific understanding of the world.
Author : Justus Buchler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791401839
During the past two decades Metaphysics of Natural Complexes has exerted a strong a growing influence on the continuing development of contemporary philosophy. This new and expanded edition acknowledges this influence and brings together much material. Included are the previously published articles On the Concept of the World, and Probing the Idea of Nature, which Buchler wrote subsequent to Metaphysics of Natural Complexes as extensions and completions of the system. Previously unpublished work on the key concept of contour has also been added. In addition there are excerpts from Buchlers replies to his critics, a set of editors notes to facilitate cross-referencing, and an updated index. This work presents a bold and forceful metaphysics and general ontology. It provides a systematic framework for understanding the broadest features of the world and nature, and for locating our understanding of human nature, selfhood, and society as complexes in and of nature. Buchlers detailed analysis of identity, ordinality, nature, world, and validation advance our understanding of the basic categories to be used in defining and exploring whatever is. Unlike other contemporary philosophers that confine themselves to narrowly defined problems in hermeneutics or theory of knowledge, Buchler is unrelenting in his drive toward a more encompassing perspective, simultaneously combining interpretive precision with sheer breadth of vision.
Author : David Francis Pears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : OCLC:70408080
Author : Carveth Read
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0365510467
Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Nature Critical Philosophy, which takes its name from Kant, and which I shall usually call Metaphysics, is the study of the validity and adequacy of knowledge and belief. Positive Philosophy, with its premises, is, therefore, part of the Object of Metaphysics; but only a part: for Metaphysics has two branches, the Metaphysics of Nature and Science, and the Metaphysics of Ideals. The Ideals are expressed in Polity, Religion, Art, and Virtue; but these human Ideals and their metaphysical significance are beyond the scope of this volume. The Metaphysics of Nature, as Nature is presented to us in science and experience, is my subject; but Since the regions of science are certainly greater than I can explore, I Shall deal only with their most general principles, where they come nearest to philosophical interest, are least technical, and have now become an element of general culture; and it is a rule from which I never depart, not to attempt to solve a priori any problem, that can only be effectually treated by inductive methods. The criticism of knowledge and beliefs, then; and, of course, some extensions and interpretations of them, in order to give roundness and coherence to the whole; in fact, an essay toward the Prima Philosophia. 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 : Armen Marsoobian,Kathleen Wallace,Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791404919
Author : Joshua Hoffman,Gary Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134831357
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex subject, Substance provides both the historical and contemporary overview of the debate. Great Philosophers of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, and Berkeley were profoundly interested in the concept of substance. And, the authors argue, a belief in the existence of substances is an integral part of our everyday world view. But what constitutes substance? Was Aristotle right to suggest that artefacts like tables and ships don't really exist? Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students of metaphysics and philosophy.
Author : Helen Beebee,Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136975769
Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke’s views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism. Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori; but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this extension, or engage with the critical work being done by philosophers of language. This collection brings authors on both sides together in one volume, thus helping the reader to see the connections between views in philosophy of language on the one hand and the metaphysics of science on the other. The result is a book that will have a significant impact on the debate about essentialism, encouraging essentialists to engage with debates about the semantic presuppositions that underpin their position, and, encouraging philosophers of language to engage with the metaphysical presuppositions enshrined in Kripkean semantics.
Author : Sarah Waterlow,Sarah Broadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198244827
This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.
Author : Paul Davies,Niels Henrik Gregersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107684539
From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.
Author : Marc Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199745036
What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet contingent? Lange provocatively argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts, while also providing a non-technical and accessible survey of the field.