Common Sense Science And Scepticism
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Author |
: Alan Musgrave |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1993-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521436257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521436250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Sense, Science and Scepticism by : Alan Musgrave
Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object that the senses are not an adequate basis for certain knowledge. Other dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of pure reason. Sceptics object that rational self-evidence is no guarantee of truth. This book is an introductory and historically-based survey of the debate, siding for the most part with scepticism to show that the desire to vanquish it has often led to doctrines of idealism or anti-realism. Scepticism, science and common sense produce another view, fallibilism or critical rationalism: although we can have little or no certain knowledge, as the sceptics maintain, we can and do have plenty of conjectural knowledge. Fallibilism incorporates an uncompromising realism about perception, science, and the nature of truth.
Author |
: Rik Peels |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2020-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108476003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108476007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy by : Rik Peels
A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.
Author |
: Antonio Livi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9791935790906 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Philosophy of Common Sense by : Antonio Livi
Author |
: F. L. van Holthoon |
Publisher |
: University Press of America |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0819165042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780819165046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Sense by : F. L. van Holthoon
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Author |
: Jacob Bronowski |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2011-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571286942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571286941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Common Sense of Science by : Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the destructive modern prejudice that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests'. He wrote a fine book on William Blake while running the National Coal Board's research establishment. The Common Sense of Science, first published in 1951, is a vivid attempt to explain in ordinary language how science is done and how scientists think. He isolates three creative ideas that have been central to science: the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance. For Bronowski, these were common-sense ideas that became immensely powerful and productive when applied to a vision of the world that broke with the medieval notion of a world of things ordered according to their ideal natures. Instead, Galileo, Huyghens and Newton and their contemporaries imagined 'a world of events running in a steady mechanism of before and after'. We are still living with the consequences of this search for order and causality within the facts that the world presents to us.
Author |
: James B. Conant |
Publisher |
: Franklin Watts |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1981-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0531002764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780531002766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and Common Sense by : James B. Conant
Author |
: Benjamin W. Redekop |
Publisher |
: Anthem Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2020-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785275517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785275518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid by : Benjamin W. Redekop
Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern thinkers turn out to have been on the right track for understanding how the mind makes sense of the world and how basic features of the human mind and cognition are related to scientific theory and practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship from the history of ideas, cognitive science, and the history and philosophy of science, this book helps readers understand the fundamental historical and philosophical relationship between common sense and science.
Author |
: Charles Bradford Bow |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198783909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198783906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment by : Charles Bradford Bow
Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.
Author |
: Maurice Mandelbaum |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2019-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421431703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142143170X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception by : Maurice Mandelbaum
Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception. While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a viable epistemological position, even though some schools of thought hold it in low esteem.
Author |
: Andrew John Graham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:434033088 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scepticism and Common Sense by : Andrew John Graham