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Author : John Peter Anton
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4980203
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:849058396
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472502377
In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of observation - are unfounded, and shows instead that Plato had a series of important and cogent criticisms to make of the early atomists and other physiologoi. Plato's views on science, and on astronomy and cosmology in particular, are shown to have developed in interesting ways. Thus, the book argues, Plato can best be seen as a philosopher struggling with the foundations of scientific realism, and as someone, moreover, who has interesting epistemological, cosmological and nomological reasons for his approach. Plato's Philosophy of Science is important reading for all those with an interest in Ancient Philosophy and the History of Science.
Author : Brian Patrick Hendley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0887067336
This collection of original essays pays tribute to the man by exploring topics that have interested him through a long and productive career. Plato's mathematical imagery, his theory of perception, the role of engineering techne in the origin of Greek science, time and free will in Kant, Whitehead as teacher of teachers, mapping friendships, Kierkegaard and the necessity of forgery. These and other topics are given fresh treatments meant to stimulate further philosophical thinking in the spirit of Brumbaugh himself.
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025262093
This text seeks to reassess Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.
Author : Scott Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350080225
What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that there be additional things that are not located in space and time? Using clear examples, these are just some of the questions that Scott Berman explores as he shows why alternative theories such as Nominalism, Contemporary Aristotelianism, Constructivism, and Classical Aristotelianism, fall short. He demonstrates why the objects of scientific knowledge need to be not located in space or time if they are to do the explanatory work scientists need them to do. The result is a contemporary version of Platonism that provides us with the best way to explain what the objects of scientific understanding are, and how those non-spatiotemporal things relate to the spatiotemporal things of scientific experiments, as well as everything around us, including even ourselves.
Author : P. Nicolacopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400920156
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).
Author : Helen F. North
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327672
Author : Jay Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471100014
A revolutionary biography and philosophical history which has blown wide open the way we have viewed Plato for the last 500 years
Author : Michael Heller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783642177057
The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe — are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science. In the light of this historical development, it becomes clear that modern science gives us not only a technological power over the world, but also a deeper understanding of physical reality. In this sense, science could be regarded as an heir to the traditional "philosophy of nature". Moreover, the reader will learn why science itself deserves to be the subject of philosophical reflection.
Author : Luc Brisson,F. Walter Meyerstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791426912
A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible and undemonstrable propositions. These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical relationship between the sensible perception of a world of becoming and the formalized system of axioms known as a "scientific explanation." The "irrational gap" between perception and explanation can be appraised historically and identified in three stages: Plato's Timaeus furnishes the first example of a scientific theory dealing with a realm of ideality that cannot be derived from immediate sensible perception; the Big Bang model is constituted on the basis of the purely geometrical notion of symmetry; and in the more recent Algorithmic Theory of Information, the analysis of the purely symbolic language expressing physical reality reveals the level of complexity of any given theory formulated in this language. The result is that the probability of the universe actually conforming with simple mathematics is zero. In a formal system, a theorem contains more information than can be found in the set of axioms of this system, and it remains undecidable. In Aristotle' s language, the theorems that can be proved within a theoretical model are already potentially contained in the system of axioms underlying these theorems.
Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191579226
This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information. It stresses the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and touches on his arguments for the immortality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : William Whewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB10047329
Author : T. K. Seung
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847681122
What is the nature of norms and values for the constitution of human society and culture? In this groundbreaking work, T. K. Seung shows that this was the ultimate question for Plato throughout his life, and that he gave not one but two answers, thus twice inventing political philosophy as the science of all sciences. Providing a thematically unified interpretation of his dialogues on the grand scale, Seung retraces Plato's journey of invention. Plato Rediscovered extends the project Seung began in Intuition and Construction (1993) and Kant's Platonic Revolution (1994). A work that will radically alter our understanding of the philosopher.
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Historia de la fisica
ISBN : 0226458032