The Panenmentalist Philosophy Of Science

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030411244

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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science by Amihud Gilead Pdf

This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527534551

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A Panenmentalist Philosophy of Literature, or How Does Actual Reality Imitate Pure Possibilities? by Amihud Gilead Pdf

The relationship between the literary imagination, literary possibilities, and actual reality poses a major philosophical problem in the field of the metaphysics of literature. This detailed analysis of some literary masterpieces, by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, demonstrates that actual reality actualizes or “imitates” literary pure possibilities. As such, these masterpieces should be treated not as romans a clef, but, instead, as paradigm-cases on whose basis we grasp and understand actual reality.

Author : Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415939270

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The Philosophy of Science by Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer Pdf

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042029200

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Necessity and Truthful Fictions by Amihud Gilead Pdf

This book discovers areas and themes, especially in philosophical psychology, for novel observations and investigations, the diversity of which is systematically unified within the frame of the author’s original metaphysics, panenmentalism. The book demonstrates how by means of truthful fictions we may detect meaningful possibilities as well as their necessary relationships that otherwise could not be discovered.

Author : Clifford Alan Hooker
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0887063152

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A Realistic Theory of Science by Clifford Alan Hooker Pdf

This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition, pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of science both as research and as culture. It summarizes the present confused and highly polarized status of the orthodox philosophy of science. It exhibits clearly the fundamental metaphysical and global presuppositions and confusions that have led to this status. It provides a positive point of view from which progress can be made toward understanding science as research done by real scientists rather than science as exemplifying some prior epistemological program created by philosophers. And it leads directly to an understanding of science as a dynamic force within our society with consequences for the environment and public policy.

Author : Darrell P. Rowbottom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429663574

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The Instrument of Science by Darrell P. Rowbottom Pdf

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects. In this book, however, Darrell P. Rowbottom develops a new form of instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and resilient than its predecessors. This position—‘cognitive instrumentalism’—involves three core theses. First, science makes theoretical progress primarily when it furnishes us with more predictive power or understanding concerning observable things. Second, scientific discourse concerning unobservable things should only be taken literally in so far as it involves observable properties or analogies with observable things. Third, scientific claims about unobservable things are probably neither approximately true nor liable to change in such a way as to increase in truthlikeness. There are examples from science throughout the book, and Rowbottom demonstrates at length how cognitive instrumentalism fits with the development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century chemistry and physics, and especially atomic theory. Drawing upon this history, Rowbottom also argues that there is a kind of understanding, empirical understanding, which we can achieve without having true, or even approximately true, representations of unobservable things. In closing the book, he sets forth his view on how the distinction between the observable and unobservable may be drawn, and compares cognitive instrumentalism with key contemporary alternatives such as structural realism, constructive empiricism, and semirealism. Overall, this book offers a strong defence of instrumentalism that will be of interest to scholars and students working on the debate about realism in philosophy of science.

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030841973

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Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes by Amihud Gilead Pdf

This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

Author : Baruch A. Brody,Richard E. Grandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066073399

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Readings in the Philosophy of Science by Baruch A. Brody,Richard E. Grandy Pdf

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405137447

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Continental Philosophy of Science by Gary Gutting Pdf

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guideto the major twentieth-century French and German philosophicalthinking on science. A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unifiedinterpretative survey of continental work on philosophy ofscience. Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-sourceselections. Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard,and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel andCassirer. Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, RichardTieszen, Michael Friedman, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles,Hans-Jöerg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Axel Honneth,and Penelope Deutscher.

Author : Carl Gillett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781316776643

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Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy by Carl Gillett Pdf

Grand debates over reduction and emergence are playing out across the sciences, but these debates have reached a stalemate, with both sides declaring victory on empirical grounds. In this book, Carl Gillett provides new theoretical frameworks with which to understand these debates, illuminating both the novel positions of scientific reductionists and emergentists and the recent empirical advances that drive these new views. Gillett also highlights the flaws in existing philosophical frameworks and reorients the discussion to reflect the new scientific advances and issues, including the nature of 'parts' and 'wholes', the character of aggregation, and thus the continuity of nature itself. Most importantly, Gillett shows how disputes about concrete scientific cases are empirically resolvable and hence how we can break the scientific stalemate. Including a detailed glossary of key terms, this volume will be valuable for researchers and advanced students of the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and scientific researchers working in the area.

Author : Amihud Gilead
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030548100

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A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens by Amihud Gilead Pdf

This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza’s philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza’s concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza’s philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza’s system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza’s reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply “entities of imagination.” The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza’s Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza’s philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

Author : Philipp Frank
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438485539

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The Humanistic Background of Science by Philipp Frank Pdf

Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last book, The Humanistic Background of Science, is finally available. Never published in his lifetime, this original manuscript has been edited and introduced to highlight Frank's remarkable but little-known insights about the nature of modern science—insights that rival those of Karl Popper and Frank's colleagues Thomas Kuhn and James Bryant Conant. As a leading exponent of logical empiricism and a member of the famous Vienna Circle, Frank intended his book to provide an accessible, engaging introduction to the philosophy of science and its cultural significance. The book is steadfastly true to science; to aspirations of peace, unity, and human flourishing after World War II; and to the pragmatic philosophies of Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey that Frank embraced in his new American home. Amidst the many recent surveys and retrospective analyses of midcentury philosophy of science, The Humanistic Background of Science offers an original, first-hand view of Frank's post-European life and of intellectual dramas then unfolding in Chicago, New York City, and Boston.

Author : Steven Horst
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195317114

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Beyond Reduction by Steven Horst Pdf

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Author : Robert G. Colodny
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822975601

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Frontiers of Science and Philosophy by Robert G. Colodny Pdf

Six essays by noted philosophers of science include the following topics: explanation in science and in history; philosophy and the scientific image of man; psychoanalysis and parapsychology; the conceptual basis of the biological sciences; the nature of time; and problems of microphysics.

Author : Helen E. Longino
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691088764

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The Fate of Knowledge by Helen E. Longino Pdf

Seeking to break the deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science, this text argues that social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally-based knowledge, clarifying the philosophical points at issue.