The Conceptual Structure Of Reality

Author : Gal Yehezkel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319071855

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The Conceptual Structure of Reality by Gal Yehezkel Pdf

This book describes a novel conception of reality, one that uniquely incorporates an idealistic view of existence with an account of objectivity. It introduces a general model of conceptual analysis and demonstrates its effectiveness in exposing and establishing the existence of conceptual ties. The book begins by introducing the tools and principles needed for the conceptual analysis undertaken in chapters that follow. Next, it presents a detailed examination into existence, contingency, idealism, self-consciousness and natural laws. In the process, the author critically examines the conceptions of existence held by Kant, Frege and Russell; argues that the determinations of past, present and future are subjective in the sense that they imply the existence of consciousness in relation to which they are fixed; shows that every possible reality includes sufficient conditions for self-consciousness; and confronts the question of the "uniformity of nature," which states that reality is subject to natural laws. In the end, the idealistic conception of reality developed in this book implies that existence is relative, rather than absolute, in the sense that it is determined in relation to a point of view internal to reality. This view of existence implies that reality necessarily exists.

Author : Uta Priss,Simon Polovina,Richard Hill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540736813

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Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications by Uta Priss,Simon Polovina,Richard Hill Pdf

Researchers and professionals in the relevant fields will find this book a must-read, as it defines the leading edge of current research into conceptual structures. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, held in Sheffield, UK in July 2007. With almost 50 papers contained in its 500 pages, it includes a special focus on the application of conceptual structures in business and technological settings and is organized into topical sections for ease of reference.

Author : Paul M.W. Hackett
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889457311

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Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches by Paul M.W. Hackett Pdf

In this eBook, Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality, the title very well describes the book's content. Within the book's pages a selection of academics from a variety of human behaviour, human/social science and humanities disciplines write about their research all of which can be typified by their consideration of how categories are used to structure understanding of phenomena. These authors have considered how reality may be understood through notions such as categorial and structural ontologies, part-whole relatoinships (mereology), the qualitative, quantitative and philosophical use of the facet theory approach to research, mapping sentences and declarative mapping sentence, hermeneutics, concepts and constructs, similarities and differences. The resulting collection presents the foregoing conceptual and empirical approaches to knowledge development in general (chapter 1&3 Hackett); Phillips and Wislons' review of compositional syntax in bird calls (chapter 2); neurobehavioral decision systems (chapter 4 Foxall); representations of human psychological processes (chapter 5 Juan-Miguel López-Gil; Rosa Gil; Roberto García); free associations mirroring and its relation to self- and world-related concepts (chapter 6 Martin Kuška; Radek Trnka; Aleš Antonín Kuběna; Jiří Růžička); local knowledge and going beyond the data (chapter 7 Steven Phillips); categorical etiologies of speech sound disorders (chapter 8 Kelly Farquharson); similarity of visual appearance (chapter 9 Nao Nakatsuji; Hisayasu Ihara; Takeharu Seno; Hiroshi Ito); and a consideration of the seminal writing of David Oderberg's on the categorial classification of reality (chapter 10 Hackett).

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 9789839154818

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The Concept and Reality of Existence by Toshihiko Izutsu Pdf

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199608577

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Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers Pdf

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He returns to Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same, and adopts the idea of scrutability—according to which reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world—to address central themes in philosophy.

Author : Z. Bechler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401132763

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Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution by Z. Bechler Pdf

Three events, which happened all within the same week some ten years ago, set me on the track which the book describes. The first was a reading of Emile Meyerson works in the course of a prolonged research on Einstein's relativity theory, which sent me back to Meyerson's Ident ity and Reality, where I read and reread the striking chapter on "Ir rationality". In my earlier researches into the origins of French Conven tionalism I came to know similar views, all apparently deriving from Emile Boutroux's doctoral thesis of 1874 De fa contingence des lois de la nature and his notes of the 1892-3 course he taught at the Sorbonne De ['idee de fa loi naturelle dans la science et la philosophie contempo raines. But never before was the full effect of the argument so suddenly clear as when I read Meyerson. On the same week I read, by sheer accident, Ernest Moody's two parts paper in the JHIof 1951, "Galileo and Avempace". Put near Meyerson's thesis, what Moody argued was a striking confirmation: it was the sheer irrationality of the Platonic tradition, leading from A vem pace to Galileo, which was the working conceptual force behind the notion of a non-appearing nature, active all the time but always sub merged, as it is embodied in the concept of void and motion in it

Author : Madalina Croitoru,Sébastien Ferré,Dickson Lukose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642141966

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Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence by Madalina Croitoru,Sébastien Ferré,Dickson Lukose Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2010, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, in July 2010. The 12 full papers and 6 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The volume also contains 5 invited talks. Originally centered around research on knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scopt to include innovations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other forms of graph-based formalisms like RDF or existential graphs, formal concept analysis, semantic Web technologies, ontologies, concept mapping and more.

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791454231

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Religion in Late Modernity by Robert C. Neville Pdf

Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public. Against the common supposition that religion is on the retreat in late modernity except in fundamentalist forms, the author argues that religion in our time is a stimulus to religiously oriented scholarship, a civilizing force among world societies, a foundation for obligation in politics, a source for healthy social experimentation, and the most important mover of soul.

Author : Erica Appelros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351932776

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God in the Act of Reference by Erica Appelros Pdf

To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious worship. This book sets out to challenge this common view on existence and religious belief. Arguing from concrete examples of language use in children's make-believe play and other ordinary situations, Erica Appelros suggests that what makes us consider something to be real involves our capacities to relate to our surroundings - not only on grounds of their physical characteristics but also on grounds of human construction. This book makes a substantial contribution to the contemporary debate within philosophy of religion on religious realism and non-realism, and suggests innovative and constructive solutions to the perennial philosophical and religious issue of what is meant by talking about God and God's existence.

Author : Ruth Hagengruber,Uwe Riss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317317555

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Philosophy, Computing and Information Science by Ruth Hagengruber,Uwe Riss Pdf

Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed of development has left related philosophical enquiry behind. Featuring the work of computer scientists and philosophers, these essays provide an overview of an exciting new area of philosophy that is still taking shape.

Author : M. Ferrari,I.-O. Stamatescu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662048559

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Symbol and Physical Knowledge by M. Ferrari,I.-O. Stamatescu Pdf

Introduces the problem of the symbolic structure of physics, surveys the modern history of symbols, proceeds to an epistemological discussion of the role of symbols in our knowledge of nature, and addresses key issues related to the methodology of physics and the character of its symbolic structures.

Author : JOSEPH BRENNER
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402083754

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Logic in Reality by JOSEPH BRENNER Pdf

This book is both dif?cult and rewarding, affording a new perspective on logic and reality, basically seen in terms of change and stability, being and becoming. Most importantly it exemplifies a mode of doing philosophy of science that seems a welcome departure from the traditional focus on purely analytic arguments. The author approaches ontology, metaphysics, and logic as having offered a number of ways of constructing the description of reality, and aims at deepening their relationships in a new way. Going beyond the mere abstract and formal aspects of logical analysis, he offers a new architecture of logic that sees it as applied not only to the “reasoning processes” belonging to the first disciplinary group – ontology – but also directly concerned with en- ties, events, and phenomena studied by the second one – metaphysics. It is the task of the book to elaborate such a constructive logic, both by offering a lo- cal view of the structure of the reality in general and by proffering a wealth of models able to encompass its implications for science. In turning from the merely formal to the constructive account of logic Brenner overcomes the limitation of logic to linguistic concepts so that it can be not only a logic “of” reality but also “in” that reality which is constitutively characterized by a number of fundamental dualities (observer and observed, self and not-self, internal and external, etc.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Egricultural Systems Conceptual Framework for Agricultural Research and Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Brandel,Marco Motta
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823294282

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Living with Concepts by Andrew Brandel,Marco Motta Pdf

In this anthology, philosophers and anthropologists examine a concept too often taken for granted: that of the concept itself. Concepts are often thought of as mere tools of analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs or symbols. But the contributors in this volume challenge these conventional frameworks, turning instead to the ways concepts are intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our conscious existence. Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed. showing how the supposed need to grasp reality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. Contributors: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal.

Author : Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781453215463

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The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann Pdf

A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.