Metaphysics In The Age Of Scientific Hegemony

Author : JURGEN. LAWRENZ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527529489
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony written by JURGEN. LAWRENZ and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a series of essays which concern themselves with the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation in our time. It delves into Hegel's politics, the ethics of Confucius and Aristotle, the research of Leibniz, with its astonishing anticipations of modern ideas, Wittgenstein's reflections on language, the meaning of music and art and a capital instance of a failed enquiry into life and mind from a scientific point of view. In all these instances, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being. Metaphysics as a philosophical discipline has long been under fire for its doctrinal presumptions, but never more so than under the hegemony of science. Yet, as the essays in this volume demonstrate, it remains an indispensable tool for thinkers in all areas of research in which the human creature is under the spotlight. That this involves a reversal of competences has not been seriously accepted--predominantly in terms of the gulf between autonomous agency and the mechanistic doxa under which science is compelled to operate. This volume seeks to put the torch on these discrepancies, where presuppositions end and understanding must take over.

Author : Jürgen Lawrenz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527529495
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony written by Jürgen Lawrenz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a series of essays which concern themselves with the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation in our time. It delves into Hegel’s politics, the ethics of Confucius and Aristotle, the research of Leibniz, with its astonishing anticipations of modern ideas, Wittgenstein’s reflections on language, the meaning of music and art and a capital instance of a failed enquiry into life and mind from a scientific point of view. In all these instances, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being. Metaphysics as a philosophical discipline has long been under fire for its doctrinal presumptions, but never more so than under the hegemony of science. Yet, as the essays in this volume demonstrate, it remains an indispensable tool for thinkers in all areas of research in which the human creature is under the spotlight. That this involves a reversal of competences has not been seriously accepted—predominantly in terms of the gulf between autonomous agency and the mechanistic doxa under which science is compelled to operate. This volume seeks to put the torch on these discrepancies, where presuppositions end and understanding must take over.

Author : Alois Riehl
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331071078
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Theory of Science and Metaphysics (Classic Reprint) written by Alois Riehl and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction to the Theory of Science and Metaphysics With reference to the translation itself only a word is necessary. I have ordinarily translated the word Vorstellzmg by idea, although not infrequently some other word was necessary to bring out the sense clearly; I have written Idea when the German word was Idee, except in some cases where it seemed fair to translate this word by ideal. It goes without saying that I have not attempted to reproduce the German literally, but I hope the meaning has been rendered with accuracy. Much of the translation has been read by Professor {iehl and parts of it by other friends; the author has made numerous minor changes and corrections which will be incorporated in the second German edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Obed Frausto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793654441
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Metaphysical Artifact written by Obed Frausto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the political-philosophical controversies in nineteenth-century France and Mexico. Frausto argues that these controversial spaces and times integrate humanities, sciences, and technologies. The power of the metaphysical artifact is a democratic metaphor to transcend disciplinary boundaries and welcome different perspectives.

Author : Ashis Nandy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Hegemony and Violence written by Ashis Nandy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the United Nations University, the essays in this book focus on varying aspects of two basic issues: firstly, science as it provides justification for state violence and aristocracy; and secondly, science as violent technological intervention, which invades and disrupts privateand stable patterns of life in the name of progress and development.

Author : Alexandre Koyré
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
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Download or read book Metaphysics and Measurement: Essays in Scientific Revolution written by Alexandre Koyré and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Amsterdamski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Download or read book Between Experience and Metaphysics written by Stefan Amsterdamski and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019107487X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural and the Human written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful and worthwhile form of enquiry. What kept it afloat between the middle of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, when its legitimacy began to hinge on an intimate link with technology? The answer lies in large part in an abrupt but fundamental shift in how the tasks of scientific enquiry were conceived, from the natural realm to the human realm. At the core of this development lies the naturalization of the human, that is, attempts to understand human behaviour and motivations no longer in theological and metaphysical terms, but in empirical terms. One of the most striking feature of this development is the variety of forms it took, and the book explores anthropological medicine, philosophical anthropology, the 'natural history of man', and social arithmetic. Each of these disciplines re-formulated basic questions so that empirical investigation could be drawn upon in answering them, but the empirical dimension was conceived very differently in each case, with the result that the naturalization of the human took the form of competing, and in some respects mutually exclusive, projects.

Author : Jimena Canales
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173176
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physicist and the Philosopher written by Jimena Canales and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truth On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized Einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time. The Physicist and the Philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. Jimena Canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of Einstein and Bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in Paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth century. She shows how it provoked responses from figures such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger, and carried repercussions for American pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics. Canales explains how the new technologies of the period—such as wristwatches, radio, and film—helped to shape people’s conceptions of time and further polarized the public debate. She also discusses how Bergson and Einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival’s legacy—Bergson during the Nazi occupation of Paris and Einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosion. The Physicist and the Philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of time.

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802838858
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of God in Modern Thought written by Philip Clayton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that modern philosophers have dismissed the idea of God and opted instead for a secular humanism. Challenging these stereotypes through a careful study of major philosophical texts written since the Enlightenment, Philip Clayton shows how the main thinkers of the modern period have continued to wrestle with the problem of God and to make proposals for understanding the divine. Following up on his award-winning book God and Contemporary Science, Clayton here explores the constructive resources that modern thought offers to those struggling with the notion of God as "infinite" and "perfect." He finds in the narrative of modern thought about God strong support for panentheism, the new theological movement that maintains the transcendence of God while denying the separation of God and the world.