Yorick s World Science and the Knowing Subject Peter Caws – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520912878,052091287X
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- ISBN 10:052091287X
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- Author: Peter Caws
Yorick’s World
Science and the Knowing Subject
Caws’s work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick’s World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.
Table contents:
Preface to Part I
1 Aspects of Hempel’s Philosophy of Science
2 Science and System
3 Gosse’s Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief
4 Creationism and Evolution
Preface to Part II
5 The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager
6 The Structure of Discovery
7 Induction and the Kindness of Nature
Preface to Part III
8 Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable
9 Mach’s Principle and the Laws of Logic
10 A Quantum Theory of Causality
11 A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle
Preface to Part IV
12 Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature
13 Praxis and Tedine
14 On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis
15 Individual Praxis in Real Time
16 Towards a Philosophy of Technology
17 Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly
Preface to Part V
18 Is There (Scientific) Knowledge? Who Knows?
19 The Law of Quantity and Quality, or What Numbers Can and Can’t Describe
20 On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
21 On a Circularity in Our Knowledge of the Physically Real
22 Truth and Presence
Preface to Part VI
23 Science, Surrealism, and the Status of the Subject
24 Subjectivity in the Machine
25 Rethinking Intentionality
26 Yorick’s World, or the Universe in a Single Skull
27 A Case for the Human Sciences
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