Principles of Empirical Realism
Author | : Donald Cary Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Empiricism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Cary Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Empiricism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roy Bhaskar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134050860 |
First Published in 2008. Now acknowledged as a classic in the philosophy of science, A Realist Theory of Science is one of the very few books which has transformed not only our understanding of science, but that of the nature of the world it studies. Since its original publication in 1975, the book has inspired the multi-disciplinary and international movement of thought known as "critical realism"; and its ideas have been influential across the whole spectrum of the sciences, arts and humanities and in a diverse array of social practices and professions. In this book, Roy Bhaskar sets out to revindicate ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favor of knowledge, which he calls the "epistemic fallacy". Employing a transcendental argument from the nature of experimental activity, he establishes a critique of the dominant positivist and neo-Kantian traditions in the philosophy of science, developing a new ontology in which concepts of structure, difference and change come to the fore. Then, analyzing the nature of scientific discovery and development, he shows how, against both the empiricist and rationalist traditions, science can come to have a posteriori knowledge of natural necessity. The resultant position, which the author characterizes as transcendental realism, has the power to resolve many traditional philosophical problems, such as the problem of induction. At the same time it lays the basis for radically new accounts of social science, ethics and the project of human emancipation. A new introduction to this edition by Mervyn Hartwig decribes the significance of A Realist Theory of Science throughout the humanities world, and offers an expert critique of its content.
Author | : David K. Clark |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739107669 |
"Only in the darkest of hours will a few seriously entertain the haunting possibility, almost unthinkable, that at the end of the day our best sense of the world, and of what is abidingly good, is an error." Does then the universe really have a guiding moral structure which is at once integral to the quality of human life? Empirical Realism is Clark's sustained, challenging and original argument for moral realism, one which not only provides the badly needed account of normativity--of what it is exactly that constitutes genuine moral obligation--but which also anchors that account within a comprehensive philosophical theory. The author's position, rigorously developed and defended, provides a trek through issues central to classical and contemporary philosophy. Masterfully navigating his readers through the global realism/antirealism debate in Parts I and II, his erudition--sensitive yet unflinching--knows no shortcuts. David Clark's first book goes on to show how intrinsic value, a value which is inherent and not conferred, is the independently real feature which both generates obligation and is the ground by which it is to be honored. This three-Part text has direct implications for metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, environmental ethics, and moral theory generally.
Author | : Tim Button |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0199672172 |
Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.
Author | : Roy Wood Sellars |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samir Okasha |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198745583 |
What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.
Author | : C. S. Jenkins |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-08-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191552402 |
Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical influences, but avoiding unnecessary technicality, a view is developed whereby arithmetic can be known through the examination of empirically grounded concepts. These are concepts which, owing to their relationship to sensory input, are non-accidentally accurate representations of the mind-independent world. Examination of such concepts is an armchair activity, but enables us to recover information which has been encoded in the way our concepts represent. Emphasis on the key role of the senses in securing this coding relationship means that the view respects empiricism, but without undermining the mind-independence of arithmetic or the fact that it is knowable by means of a special armchair method called conceptual examination. A wealth of related issues are covered during the course of the book, including definitions of realism, conditions on knowledge, the problems with extant empiricist approaches to the a priori, mathematical explanation, mathematical indispensability, pragmatism, conventionalism, empiricist criteria for meaningfulness, epistemic externalism and foundationalism. The discussion encompasses themes from the work of Locke, Kant, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Quine, McDowell, Field, Peacocke, Boghossian, and many others.
Author | : Edwin Bissell Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1134009429 |
Author | : Edward Pols |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780801427107 |
In this eloquent and original book, Edward Pols challenges the linguistic consensus that has dominated Anglo-American philosophy in this century. Against the consensus assumption that the only reality question is about the relation between language and the real, he argues that philosophy is about the world and not merely about the propositional structures we use to interpret the world. The heart of his "radical realism" is that the relation between the knower and the real is prior to the relation between language and the real, and that in this prior relation we are capable of knowing directly a reality independent of the human mind.