Grasping Reality An Interpretation Realistic Epistemology
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Grasping Reality
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Author : Hans Lenk
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2003
Grasping Reality written by Hans Lenk and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretive constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point. An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.
Grasping Reality An Interpretation Realistic Epistemology
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Author : Hans Lenk
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2003-05-05
Grasping Reality An Interpretation Realistic Epistemology written by Hans Lenk and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-05 with Science categories.
Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.The three main theses are: (1) Any “grasping” of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs — in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependent realism is sketched out and defended from a methodological, non-foundational, epistemological point of view called pragmatic realism; (3) the most provocative thesis is generalized from the role of the well-known preparationist interpretation of quantum theory to everyday knowledge — the interpretative structuring and preparing of the experimental make-up as known in quantum mechanics is not just a special case but the rather general case of gaining any knowledge in science and everyday recognition.An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.
The Reality Of Meaning The Meaning Of Reality
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Author : Eddy M. Zemach
language : en
Publisher: Brown Publishing Company
Release Date : 1992
The Reality Of Meaning The Meaning Of Reality written by Eddy M. Zemach and has been published by Brown Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Language and languages categories.
Traditionally, philosophers held that expressions are meaningful which have a mental entity and sentences are true when their meaning corresponds to reality. Wittgenstein is most often read by contemporary philosophers to reject both theses: meanings cannot constrain use of language, and reference to external reality is inconceivable. Zemach is influenced by Wittgenstein as well, but demonstrates the error of a relativistic interpretation of his work, especially when Wittgenstein's later work on the philosophy of psychology is fully considered. Combining his interpretation of Wittgenstein as a mentalist with the use of Substance Logic, and the idea that meanings and their referents are tokens of the same type, Zemach restores the traditional view. The Reality of Meaning presents a clear survey of the major issues in contemporary philosophy of language. A lively, good-humored philosophical argument that is informative, topical, and well seasoned with common sense, it is a book for all readers of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science.
Retrieving Realism
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Author : Hubert Dreyfus
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Retrieving Realism written by Hubert Dreyfus and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Philosophy categories.
For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.
Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology
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Author : Nicholas Rescher
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2005
Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology written by Nicholas Rescher and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Existentia
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Existentia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
Contact With Reality
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Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-05-05
Contact With Reality written by Esther Lightcap Meek and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with Philosophy categories.
Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.
Reality And The Mind
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Author : Celestine Nicholas Charles Bittle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Reality And The Mind written by Celestine Nicholas Charles Bittle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Contemporary Philosophy A New Survey Aesthetics And Philosophy Of Art
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Author : Guttorm Fløistad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Contemporary Philosophy A New Survey Aesthetics And Philosophy Of Art written by Guttorm Fløistad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Language and languages categories.
"A continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the mid-century (Frienze 1958/59) and Contemporary philosophy (Frienze 1968)"--Pref.
Science Action And Reality
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Author : R. Tuomela
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Science Action And Reality written by R. Tuomela and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science seri ously as the best method for getting to know the ontological aspects of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. This brand of realism is "tough" in matters of ontology but "soft" in matters of semantics and epistemology. An ancestor of the book was published in Finnish under the title Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus (Gaudeamus, 1983). That book is a shortish undergraduate-level monograph. However, as some research-level chapters have been added, the present book is perhaps best regarded as suited for more advanced readers. I completed the book while my stay at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a Visiting Professor under the Exchange Program between the Universities of Wisconsin and Helsinki. I gratefully acknowledge this support. I also wish to thank Juhani Saalo and Martti Kuokkanen for comments on the manuscript and for editorial help. Dr Matti Sintonen translated the Finnish ancestor of this book into English, to be used as a partial basis for this work. His translation was supported by a grant from Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden edistamisvarat. Finally, and as usual, I wish to thank Mrs.