The Intelligibility Of Nature

Author : Peter Dear
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226139500

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Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe. In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and how it has marshaled itself to make sense of the world. His intellectual journey begins with a crucial observation: that the enterprise of science is, and has been, directed toward two distinct but frequently conflated ends—doing and knowing. The ancient Greeks developed this distinction of value between craft on the one hand and understanding on the other, and according to Dear, that distinction has survived to shape attitudes toward science ever since. Teasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science—mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory—Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, The Intelligibility of Nature will be essential reading for aficionados and historians of science alike.

Author : William A. Wallace,Op William Wallace
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813235943

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Intelligibility of Nature by William A. Wallace,Op William Wallace Pdf

The intelligibility of nature was a persistent theme of William A. Wallace, OP, one of the most prolific Catholic scholars of the late twentieth century. This Reader aims to make available a representative selection of his work in the history of science, natural philosophy, and theology illustrating his defense and development of this central theme. Wallace is among the most important Galileo scholars of the past fifty years and a key figure in the recent revival of scientific realism. Further, his long and productive scholarly career has been shaped by a continuous effort to bring the resources of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition to the solution of contemporary problems of philosophy and science. Through all of these contributions, Wallace has provided the foundation for a renewed confidence in the capacity of human knowers to attain understanding of the natural order. Consequently, the overall aim of this volume is to secure continued access to his scholarship for readers in the new millennium. The Intelligibility of Nature will contain twenty-nine previously published essays written by Wallace over a period of some forty years. Many of these essays are currently not readily accessible. They are arranged in five thematic groups, each representing a major subject-area of Wallace's scholarly interests. The first group is devoted to essays on making nature intelligible through the use of scientific models. The second group of essays investigates various ways in which the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition is foundational to contemporary scientific research. Essays in the third group are historical studies on the origins of modern science. The fourth group of essays discuss the viability of the cosmological argument for the existence of God in light of natural science. The final group of essays consider the relation of science and religion. Together these essays provide a representative sample of Wallace's multifaceted contributions to scholarship.

Author : George N. Schlesinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy of nature
ISBN : 0080324355

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814469807

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A Second Genesis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:491060130

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Author : Richard F. Hassing
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230566

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Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs by Richard F. Hassing Pdf

Teleology - the inquiry into the goals or goods at which nature, history, God, and human beings aim - is among the most fundamental yet controversial themes in the history of philosophy. Are there ends in nonhuman nature? Does human history have a goal? Do humanly unintended events of great significance express some sort of purpose? Do human beings have ends prior to choice? The essays in this volume address the abiding questions of final causality. The chapters are arranged in historical order from Aristotle through Hegel to contemporary anthropic-principle cosmology.

Author : WILLIAM A. WALLACE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Neo-Scholasticism
ISBN : 0813235952

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Intelligibility of Nature by WILLIAM A. WALLACE Pdf

Author : William A Wallace
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813208602

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The Modeling of Nature by William A Wallace Pdf

The Modeling of Nature provides an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of natural philosophy, psychology, logic, and epistemology.

Author : Maurice R. Holloway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532646331

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An Introduction to Natural Theology by Maurice R. Holloway Pdf

“What is the God of the philosopher? Can the philosopher, that is to say, can human reason, unenlightened by the revealed word, come to a true and secure understanding of ‘He-Who-Is’? Is it possible for mere man, without the impact of a personal experience, intimate and intuitive, to arrive by means of an objective demonstration at an absolute affirmation that the Being we call God exists, or that He is Pure Act, Existence Itself, because without him the world of our experience is unintelligible, a complete contradiction? “And even if we admit, as all Christian philosophers must, that unaided reason is able by its own power to reach an objectively true and secure assent that God exists, is there any evidence, in the recorded history of our world, that man, without the directive knowledge of revelation, ever did secure by a metaphysical effort this absolute truth that the Ipsum Esse exists? Whatever be the answer to this difficult problem—and we do not pretend to know it—it is obvious that Father Holloway, in composing his philosophical approach to God, allowed himself to be guided by the knowledge of faith. Indeed, he must have prayed often for the enlightenment which the supernatural motion of divine grace brings even to the limited and imperfect intellect of a philosopher.” —From the Foreword by Henri Renard, S.J.

Author : Rocío Zambrana
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226280257

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Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility by Rocío Zambrana Pdf

Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the Science of Logic. Rocío Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling the theory of normativity that Hegel elaborates in the Science of Logic within the context of his signature treatment of negativity, unveiling how both features of his system of thought operate on his theory of intelligibility. Zambrana clarifies crucial features of Hegel’s theory of normativity previously thought to be absent from the argument of the Science of Logic—what she calls normative precariousness and normative ambivalence. She shows that Hegel’s theory of determinacy views intelligibility as both precarious, the result of practices and institutions that gain and lose authority throughout history, and ambivalent, accommodating opposite meanings and valences even when enjoying normative authority. In this way, Zambrana shows that the Science of Logic provides the philosophical justification for the necessary historicity of intelligibility. Intervening in several recent developments in the study of Kant, Hegel, and German Idealism more broadly, this book provides a productive new understanding of the value of Hegel’s systematic ambitions.

Author : Henk W. de Regt,Sabina Leonelli,Kai Eigner
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822971245

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Scientific Understanding by Henk W. de Regt,Sabina Leonelli,Kai Eigner Pdf

To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this, understanding, and how it is achieved, has received little attention in recent philosophy of science. Scientific Understanding seeks to reverse this trend by providing original and in-depth accounts of the concept of understanding and its essential role in the scientific process. To this end, the chapters in this volume explore and develop three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice. Earlier philosophers, such as Carl Hempel, dismissed understanding as subjective and pragmatic. They believed that the essence of science was to be found in scientific theories and explanations. In Scientific Understanding, the contributors maintain that we must also consider the relation between explanations and the scientists who construct and use them. They focus on understanding as the cognitive state that is a goal of explanation and on the understanding of theories and models as a means to this end. The chapters in this book highlight the multifaceted nature of the process of scientific research. The contributors examine current uses of theory, models, simulations, and experiments to evaluate the degree to which these elements contribute to understanding. Their analyses pay due attention to the roles of intelligibility, tacit knowledge, and feelings of understanding. Furthermore, they investigate how understanding is obtained within diverse scientific disciplines and examine how the acquisition of understanding depends on specific contexts, the objects of study, and the stated aims of research.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89055060990

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The Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College November 1919.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069131260

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Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aaron Yom
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532657894

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The Order of God by Aaron Yom Pdf

In this most up-to-date study, Aaron Yom provides a comprehensive analysis of the doctrine of God, particularly from a pneumatological perspective. He focuses on retrieving the order of God that has been consistently misunderstood and mistreated by modern scholars. The author carefully examines scholarly works of modern thinkers such as Karl Barth, Thomas Torrance, Karl Rahner, David Coffey, Jürgen Moltmann, Clark Pinnock, and Stanley Grenz, as well as ancient masters such as Augustine and Aquinas. With a critical analysis, he highlights the strengths and weaknesses of their work to lay a foundational platform for understanding God’s order in the twenty-first-century theological context. Yom proposes a holistic approach that does not marginalize the logic of the Trinity that begins with God’s order of ontology rather than God’s order of economy, though the former is read from the latter. He maintains the intricate balance of the immanent Trinity and the economic Trinity with his newfound principle of identity and duality. Yom offers several new theological paradigms for those who are interested in the topic of systematic theology.

Author : Emmanuel G. Mesthene
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401761765

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How Language Makes Us Know by Emmanuel G. Mesthene Pdf