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Scientific Essentialism
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Author : Brian Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-09
Scientific Essentialism written by Brian Ellis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-09 with Philosophy categories.
Examines the laws of nature.
Scientific Essentialism
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Author : Brian David Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Scientific Essentialism written by Brian David Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Essentialism (Philosophy) categories.
The Philosophy Of Nature
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Author : Brian Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
The Philosophy Of Nature written by Brian Ellis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Philosophy categories.
In "The Philosophy of Nature," Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent work has been done to revive interest in essentialism and "The Philosophy of Nature" is a distinctive contribution to this lively current debate. Brian Ellis exposes the philosophical and scientific credentials of the prevailing Humean metaphysic as less than compelling and makes the case for new essentialism as an alternative metaphysical perspective in lucid and unambiguous terms. This book develops this alternative metaphysic and considers the consequences for philosophy, and for some other areas of investigation, of working with such a metaphysic. Ellis argues that these consequences are profound and that a new essentialism provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature for a modern scientific understanding of the world.
Scientific Essentialism
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Author : Roshan Praveen Xalxo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-24
Scientific Essentialism written by Roshan Praveen Xalxo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-24 with categories.
Scientific essentialism is a metaphysical theory that aims to explain the nature of scientific laws and properties. It holds that scientific laws and properties are real and objective features of the natural world that exist independently of human observation or conceptualization. According to scientific essentialism, there is a deep underlying structure to the world that determines the properties and behavior of objects and systems. This structure is not accessible to direct observation, but it can be inferred from the observable phenomena that it generates. The theory also holds that scientific laws and properties are essential to the entities that possess them. This means that if an entity were to lose a particular property, it would no longer be the same entity. For example, if an apple were to lose its property of being red, it would no longer be the same apple. Scientific essentialism has implications for our understanding of causation, explanation, and the relationship between science and metaphysics. It suggests that scientific laws and properties are not just descriptive tools, but rather, they play a fundamental role in explaining the behavior of natural systems. It also suggests that science can provide insight into the nature of reality beyond what can be directly observed, and that metaphysics can be informed by scientific investigation.
Metaphysics In Science
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Author : Alice Drewery
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2006-06-06
Metaphysics In Science written by Alice Drewery and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-06 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents work at the forefront of scholarly debate about the relevance of substantial metaphysical theories to science. Responds in particular to recent publications by Brian Ellis on scientific essentialism, especially on the topics of laws, natural kinds and realism. Contains a new paper by Brian Ellis, commentary and criticism from philosophers on Ellis’s work, and a reply by Ellis to his critics.
Scientific Essentialism And The Lewis Ramsey Account Of Laws Of Nature
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Author : Charles Monroe Hermes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Scientific Essentialism And The Lewis Ramsey Account Of Laws Of Nature written by Charles Monroe Hermes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Counterfactuals (Logic) categories.
Essence In The Age Of Evolution
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Author : Christopher J. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Essence In The Age Of Evolution written by Christopher J. Austin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with the process and progress of evolution by natural selection. Christopher J. Austin challenges these objections, and in conjunction with contemporary scientific advancements within the field of evolutionary-developmental biology, the book utilises a contemporary neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of "dispositional properties", or causal powers, to provide a theory of essentialism centred on the developmental architecture of organisms and its role in the evolutionary process. By defending a novel theory of Aristotelian biological natural kind essentialism, Essence in the Age of Evolution represents the fresh and exciting union of cutting-edge philosophical insight and scientific knowledge.
Real Essentialism
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Author : David S. Oderberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-13
Real Essentialism written by David S. Oderberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Philosophy categories.
Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like – can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, Quine, Popper, and other thinkers. Real Essentialism reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry, the essence of life, the nature of biological species, and the nature of the person.
Biological Essentialism
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Author : Michael Devitt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-02
Biological Essentialism written by Michael Devitt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-02 with Philosophy categories.
Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying, probably largely genetic properties. This view, based largely on intuitions, is dismissed by the consensus in the philosophy of biology as being incompatible with Darwinism and reflecting ignorance of biology. Biological Essentalism argues that the demands of biological explanation show that the metaphysicians are right. The positive view of the consensus is that the essences are wholly relational: taxa must have certain histories. Biological Essentialism argues that there is indeed an historical component to the essence, but this component presupposes an intrinsic component. Its second issue concerns the essences of biological individuals. Metaphysicians have had much to say about this, again on the basis of intuitions. Many hold that an individual is essentially a member of its species. This has recently been unequivocally rejected by philosophers of biology. Biological Essentialism appeals to biological explanation again to argue for essential membership; furthermore, to argue for the Kripkean view that an organism's essence is partly intrinsic and partly relational (a matter of origin). Finally, the book addresses the lively contemporary issue of whether race is biologically "real". From the perspective developed earlier, the book argues that there are indeed racial kinds, in some sense, that are "in the realm of the biological". These kinds also have partly historical and partly intrinsic underlying essences.
The Tools Of Metaphysics And The Metaphysics Of Science
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Author : Theodore Sider
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-19
The Tools Of Metaphysics And The Metaphysics Of Science written by Theodore Sider and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with Philosophy categories.
Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies how the shift from modal to "postmodal" conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of science and mathematics. He highlights, for instance, how the increased consideration of concepts of ground, essence, and fundamentality has transformed the debate over structuralism in many ways. Sider then examines three structuralist positions through a postmodal lens. First, nomic essentialism, which says that scientific properties are secondary and lawlike relationships among them are primary. Second, structuralism about individuals, a general position of which mathematical structuralism and structural realism are instances, which says that scientific and mathematical objects are secondary and the pattern of relations among them is primary. And third, comparativism about quantities, which says that particular values of scientific quantities, such as having exactly 1000g mass, are secondary, and quantitative relations, such as being-twice-as-massive-as, are primary. Sider concludes these discussions by considering the meta-question of when theories are equivalent and how that impacts the debate over structuralism.