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

• Main Author: Maxwell, Nicholas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 403
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.