Realistic Rationalism

Author : Jerrold J. Katz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262263297

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Realistic Rationalism by Jerrold J. Katz Pdf

Jerrold Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. In Realistic Rationalism, Jerrold J. Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. Realism here means that the objects of study in mathematics and other formal sciences are abstract; rationalism means that our knowledge of them is not empirical. Katz uses this position to meet the principal challenges to realism. In exposing the flaws in criticisms of the antirealists, he shows that realists can explain knowledge of abstract objects without supposing we have causal contact with them, that numbers are determinate objects, and that the standard counterexamples to the abstract/concrete distinction have no force. Generalizing the account of knowledge used to meet the challenges to realism, he develops a rationalist and non-naturalist account of philosophical knowledge and argues that it is preferable to contemporary naturalist and empiricist accounts. The book illuminates a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of necessity, the distinction between the formal and natural sciences, empiricist holism, the structure of ontology, and philosophical skepticism. Philosophers will use this fresh treatment of realism and rationalism as a starting point for new directions in their own research.

Author : Alan Musgrave
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042004185

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Essays on Realism and Rationalism by Alan Musgrave Pdf

A collection of essays (1971-1999) centering on the philosophy of science. Musgrave, a philosopher whose academic affiliations are not given, defends realism, partly from an appeal to common sense. He discusses anti-realist trends in Anglo-American philosophy (Wittgenstein, instrumentalism, construc

Author : Paul K. Feyerabend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521316421

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Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method: Volume 1 by Paul K. Feyerabend Pdf

Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical perspective on the discussions of each part. Volume 1 presents papers on the interpretation of scientific theories, together with papers applying the views developed to particular problems in philosophy and physics. The essays in volume 2 examine the origin and history of an abstract rationalism, as well as its consequences for the philosophy of science and methods of scientific research. Professor Feyerabend argues with great force and imagination for a comprehensive and opportunistic pluralism. In doing so he draws on extensive knowledge of scientific history and practice, and he is alert always to the wider philosophical, practical and political implications of conflicting views. These two volumes fully display the variety of his ideas, and confirm the originality and significance of his work.

Author : Fer,Francis Haskell,Briony Fer,David Batchelor,Paul Wood
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300055196

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Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism by Fer,Francis Haskell,Briony Fer,David Batchelor,Paul Wood Pdf

This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany, and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.

Author : Ursula Renz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199350179

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The Explainability of Experience by Ursula Renz Pdf

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realist rationalist interpretation of Spinoza's approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of subjective experience to mere intelligibility. In contrast to a long-standing tradition of Hegelian reading of Spinoza's Ethics, it thus defends the notion that the experience of finite subjects is fully real.

Author : D. Paul La Montagne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621893691

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Barth and Rationality by D. Paul La Montagne Pdf

This work brings the critically realistic interpretation of Barth's dialectical theology into conversation with the modern dialogue between science and theology. Philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics and logic, and considerations of the problem of rationality raised in the science and theology dialogue are brought to bear upon Barth's theology in an attempt to explicate the rationality of his dialectical method. Its deep and abiding radical nature and character are lifted up, emphasized, and explored. The results of this study are then used to answer some long-standing criticisms of Barth. What emerges are an understanding of how Barth uses philosophy and why he declines to do philosophy. La Montagne opens the way for Barth scholars to enter into the dialogue between theology and science.

Author : Robert L. Arrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Ethical relativism
ISBN : UOM:39076002849375

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Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism by Robert L. Arrington Pdf

Author : Edward Gleason Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3186314

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The New Rationalism by Edward Gleason Spaulding Pdf

Author : Friedrich Paulsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : American university studies
ISBN : UOM:39015063915717

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Introduction to Philosophy by Friedrich Paulsen Pdf

Author : Howard Sankey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317058809

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Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science by Howard Sankey Pdf

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position. In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, typically Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of science to appreciate and understand the doctrine. The book emphasizes the epistemological aspects of scientific realism and contains an original solution to the problem of induction that rests on an appeal to the principle of uniformity of nature.

Author : Columbia University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Education
ISBN : UIUC:30112087584444

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Contributions to Philosophy, Psychology and Education by Columbia University Pdf

Author : Columbia University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B2985086

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Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology by Columbia University Pdf

Author : James Hervey Hyslop,Walter Taylor Marvin,William Morrow Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09149066

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The Formal and Material Elements of Kant's Ethics by James Hervey Hyslop,Walter Taylor Marvin,William Morrow Washington Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUXHC

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Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy, Psychology and Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191025594

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Cognition, Content, and the A Priori by Robert Hanna Pdf

In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out a unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge. Along the way, he provides accounts of (i) intentionality and its contents, including non-conceptual content and conceptual content, (ii) sense perception and perceptual knowledge, including perceptual self-knowledge, (iii) the analytic-synthetic distinction, (iv) the nature of logic, and (v) a priori truth and knowledge in mathematics, logic, and philosophy. This book is specifically intended to reach out to two very different audiences: contemporary analytic philosophers of mind and knowledge on the one hand, and contemporary Kantian philosophers or Kant-scholars on the other. At the same time, it is also riding the crest of a wave of exciting and even revolutionary emerging new trends and new work in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, with a special concentration on the philosophy of perception. What is revolutionary in this new wave are its strong emphases on action, on cognitive phenomenology, on disjunctivist direct realism, on embodiment, and on sense perception as a primitive and proto-rational capacity for cognizing the world. Cognition, Content, and the A Priori makes a fundamental contribution to this philosophical revolution by giving it a specifically contemporary Kantian twist, and by pushing these new lines of investigation radically further.