The New Realism (Classic Reprint): Coöperative Studies in Philosophy - Couverture souple

Holt, Edwin B. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330118561 ISBN 13 : 9781330118566

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A collection of cooperative essays that reexamine realism in science and everyday life.

Scholars explore how objects, knowledge, and the mind shape our understanding, while staying grounded in practical experience.

The volume gathers thoughtful discussions on realism as a constructive philosophy and its relation to the sciences, logic, and metaphysics. It also tests how realism can illuminate truth, error, and the role of analysis in scientific inquiry.

• Realism as a constructive philosophy and its implications for subjectivity, content, and the objects of knowledge
• Realism and its relationship to the special sciences, logic, and mathematics
• The emancipation of metaphysics from epistemology and a pragmatic approach to truth
• Arguments for and against various theories of independence, consciousness, and the biological world
• A rigorous defense of analysis and its applications to perception, space, time, and complex wholes

Ideal for readers of philosophy and science who value careful argument and interdisciplinary insight.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy

On July 21, 1910, we published a brief article entitled 'The Program and First Platform of Six Realists,' in which we indicated the direction philosophical inquiry ought to take. We there asserted that advance would be facilitated by cooperative investigations; and the drafting of the platform was a first attempt to confirm this belief. The present volume continues, on a larger scale, the work there inaugurated; and we hope it will be followed by other collections of studies.

The introductory essay voices our common opinions. The other essays do so only in part. It has seemed best to publish them without laboring for complete unanimity, inasmuch as their agreements quite overshadow their differences. They have been written after prolonged conferences. A few important debatable topics are briefly discussed by dissenting members in the Appendix.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330118561
• ISBN 13: 9781330118566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 516
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