Philosophy And The Empirical

Author : Susann Wagenknecht,Nancy J. Nersessian,Hanne Andersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319186009

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Empirical Philosophy of Science by Susann Wagenknecht,Nancy J. Nersessian,Hanne Andersen Pdf

The book examines the emerging approach of using qualitative methods, such as interviews and field observations, in the philosophy of science. Qualitative methods are gaining popularity among philosophers of science as more and more scholars are resorting to empirical work in their study of scientific practices. At the same time, the results produced through empirical work are quite different from those gained through the kind of introspective conceptual analysis more typical of philosophy. This volume explores the benefits and challenges of an empirical philosophy of science and addresses questions such as: What do philosophers gain from empirical work? How can empirical research help to develop philosophical concepts? How do we integrate philosophical frameworks and empirical research? What constraints do we accept when choosing an empirical approach? What constraints does a pronounced theoretical focus impose on empirical work? Nine experts discuss their thoughts and empirical results in the chapters of this book with the aim of providing readers with an answer to these questions.

Author : Michael Ben-Chaim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351937757

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Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science by Michael Ben-Chaim Pdf

How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science? Scholars have traditionally associated empirical research with the search for knowledge, but have failed to provide adequate solutions to this basic historical problem. This book offers a different approach that focuses on human understanding - rather than knowledge - and its cultural expression in the creation and social transaction of causal explanations. Ancient Greek philosophers professed that genuine understanding of a particular subject was gained only when its nature, or essence, was defined. This ancient mode of explanation furnished the core teachings of late medieval natural philosophers, and was reaffirmed by early modern philosophers such as Bacon and Descartes. Yet during the second half of the 17th century, radical transformation gave rise to innovative research practices that were designed to explain how empirical properties of the physical world were correlated. The study unfolded in this book centres on the works of Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton - the most notable exponents of the 'experimental philosophy' in the late 17th century - to explore how this transformation led to the emergence of a recognizably modern culture of empirical research. Relating empirical with explanatory practices, this book offers a novel solution to one of the major problems in the history of western science and philosophy. It thereby provides a new perspective on the Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern empiricism. At the same time, this book demonstrates how historical and sociological tools can be combined to study science as an evolving institution of human understanding.

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781743321591

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Studies in Empirical Philosophy by John Anderson Pdf

Studies in Empirical Philosophy was published in 1962 shortly after Anderson's death and had been prepared by him to include most of his published articles from the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Psychology. It also includes a couple of articles written especially for the book. It remains the main published source of material on Anderson's systematic philosophy. John Passmore has kindly granted permission for his introduction to be included in this new release. John Anderson (1893-1962) was Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1927 until 1958. He is generally regarded as the most important philosopher to have worked in Australia. His students included not only academic philosophers but also important figures in politics, law and journalism. His impact upon Sydney's social and cultural life was enormous.

Author : Peter A. French,Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124217220

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Philosophy and the Empirical by Peter A. French,Howard K. Wettstein Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies. Explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm – philosophy as conceptual analysis – is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar

Author : Quinn Terrance J
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813208452

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Invitation To Generalized Empirical Method: In Philosophy And Science by Quinn Terrance J Pdf

Bernard Lonergan identified the need and possibility of what he called "generalized empirical method" in science and philosophy. Implementation will be a future community achievement. The book enters into details of a selection of examples in the sciences and philosophy of science. These are provided not to engage in, or blend the present aim with traditional philosophical debate, but as points of entry to help reveal the possibility and need of balanced empirical method. Taking words of Lonergan: "(Q)uestions of method are practical. So my purpose in these (chapters) is not to demonstrate what is necessary. It is not to forecast what is probable. It is ... to invite you to share in the exploration of a proposal" (Bernard Lonergan, A Third Collection (1985), 114). The main examples are drawn from biochemistry and biology, although heuristics envisioned will include all sciences.

Author : Justin Sytsma,Jonathan Livengood
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770484214

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The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy by Justin Sytsma,Jonathan Livengood Pdf

In recent years, developments in experimental philosophy have led many thinkers to reconsider their central assumptions and methods. It is not enough to speculate and introspect from the armchair—philosophers must subject their claims to scientific scrutiny, looking at evidence and in some cases conducting new empirical research. The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy is an introduction and guide to the systematic collection and analysis of empirical data in academic philosophy. This book serves two purposes: first, it examines the theory behind “x-phi,” including its underlying motivations and the objections that have been leveled against it. Second, the book offers a practical guide for those interested in doing experimental philosophy, detailing how to design, implement, and analyze empirical studies. Thus, the book explains the reasoning behind x-phi and provides tools to help readers become experimental philosophers.

Author : P. A. Kroes,A.W.M. Meijers
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0762307552

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The Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology by P. A. Kroes,A.W.M. Meijers Pdf

Mostly Dutch and American contributors, including professors of philosophy, engineering and technology studies, ethics, international studies, and aerospace engineering, present 13 contributions discussing the development of a more "internally oriented philosophy of technology" emphasizing the ways in which empirical data can be used in ontological, epistemological, ethical, or more general discussions in the philosophy of technology. Contributions attempt to show that the methodology of using empirical data in a philosophical analysis needs further reflection, in particular the criteria for selecting good case studies. Most of the papers in this volume were presented at a 1998 workshop held in Delft, The Netherlands, after which the volume is titled. Lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Bas C. van Fraassen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300127966

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The Empirical Stance by Bas C. van Fraassen Pdf

What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition. The empiricist tradition is not and could not be defined by common doctrines, but embodies a certain stance in philosophy, van Fraassen says. This stance is displayed first of all in a searing, recurrent critique of metaphysics, and second in a focus on experience that requires a voluntarist view of belief and opinion. Van Fraassen focuses on the philosophical problems of scientific and conceptual revolutions and on the not unrelated ruptures between religious and secular ways of seeing or conceiving of ourselves. He explores what it is to be or not be secular and points the way toward a new relationship between secularism and science within philosophy.

Author : Michael Strevens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674989702

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Thinking Off Your Feet by Michael Strevens Pdf

In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.

Author : Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty,Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674251547

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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty,Robert Brandom Pdf

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

Author : Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Andreas Elpidorou,Walter Hopp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134516278

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Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology by Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Andreas Elpidorou,Walter Hopp Pdf

This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed ways. The objective is to demonstrate that phenomenology, as the first-personal study of the contents and structures of our mentality, can provide us with insights into the understanding of the mind and can complement strictly analytical or empirically informed approaches to the study of the mind. Insofar as phenomenology, as the study or science of phenomena, allows the mind to appear, this collection shows how the mind can reappear through a constructive dialogue between different ways—phenomenological, analytical, and empirical—of understanding mentality.

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Empiricism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010364714

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Studies in Empirical Philosophy by John Anderson Pdf

Author : C. Lütge,H. Rusch,M. Uhl,Christoph Luetge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137409805

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Experimental Ethics by C. Lütge,H. Rusch,M. Uhl,Christoph Luetge Pdf

Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.

Author : Petar Bojanić,Samuele Iaquinto,Giuliano Torrengo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8878856835

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Empirical Evidence and Philosophy by Petar Bojanić,Samuele Iaquinto,Giuliano Torrengo Pdf

Author : Richard J. Connell
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015014942497

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The Empirical Intelligence by Richard J. Connell Pdf

This study seeks to show how human intelligence starts from observable properties of things and moves to unobservable realities, especially causes; language and mythology then reflect the characteristics of this mode. The text goes on to argue against innate ideas and a priori concepts by showing the empirical character of philosophy and contrasting its foundations and explanatory method with the natural sciences.