Modal Empiricism

Author : Quentin Ruyant
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030723496
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modal Empiricism written by Quentin Ruyant and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view that the aim of science is to provide theories that correctly delimit, in a unified way, the range of experiences that are naturally possible given our position in the world. The view is associated with a pragmatic account of scientific representation and an original notion of situated modalities, together with an inductive epistemology for modalities. It purports to provide a faithful account of scientific practice and of its impressive achievements, and defuses the main motivations for scientific realism. More generally, Modal Empiricism purports to be the precise articulation of a pragmatist stance towards science. This book is of interest to any philosopher involved in the debate on scientific realism, or interested in how to properly understand the content, aim and achievements of science.

Author : Bob Fischer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319443097
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modal Epistemology After Rationalism written by Bob Fischer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.

Author : P. Dicken
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281826
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive Empiricism written by P. Dicken and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological framework in which one should debate the aim of science. This is the focus of this book – not with scientific truth, but with how one should argue about scientific truth.

Author : Ylwa Sjölin Wirling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789173469838
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modal Empiricism Made Difficult written by Ylwa Sjölin Wirling and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000840433
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology written by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.

Author : Bas C. Van Fraassen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226106543
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Science written by Bas C. Van Fraassen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."—Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters

Author : Mark Amadeus Notturno
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004451528
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Psychologism written by Mark Amadeus Notturno and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tamar Szabó Gendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569767
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Epistemology written by Tamar Szabó Gendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; - new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; - foundational questions in decision-theory; - confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; - topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; - topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; - work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Author : James Ladyman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534757
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Thing Must Go written by James Ladyman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundamental physics ('ontic structural realism'), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ('rainforest realism'), can be used to unify physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics itself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects. Every Thing Must Go also assesses the role of information theory and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science are explored, including the implications for the realism vs. empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural kinds.

Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674187288
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Empiricism to Expressivism written by Robert Brandom and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism—a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today.