The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism A Revolution for Science and Philosophy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Maxwell, Nicholas (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 403
• Θέματα: Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.

This book tackles two fundamental problems: How can our human world exist and best flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe? What role do untestable, metaphysical ideas about the nature of the physical universe play in science? In connection with the first, it is argued that physics is co...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Part I. Chapter 1. Early Work on The Metaphysics of Science
• Chapter 2. Subsequent Work on Essentialism and the Mind/Body Problem
• Part II. Chapter 3. Aim-Oriented Empiricism: Exposition, and Implications for Science and the Philosophy of Science
• Chapter 4. Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science: 2007 to 2017
• Part III. Chapter 5. Broader Implications: Academic Inquiry for a Wiser World
• Appendix. Refutation of Kripke on Rigid Designators and Essentialism.