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From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism

Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodology, used in the separate, comparative evaluation of theories in terms of their successes and problems (hence, even if already falsified), provides in theory and practice the straight road to short-term empirical progress in science ( à la Laudan). It is also argued that such progress is also functional for all kinds of truth approximation: observational, referential, and theoretical. This sheds...

The Instrument of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Instrument of Science

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects. In this book, however, Darrell P. Rowbottom develops a new form of instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and resilient than its predecessors. This position—‘cognitive instrumentalism’—involves three core theses. First, science makes theoretical progress primarily when it furnishes us with more predictive power or understanding concerning observable things. Second, scientific discourse concerning unobse...

The Origin of Dewey's Instrumentalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

The Origin of Dewey's Instrumentalism

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  • Published: 1943
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Philosophical Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Philosophical Representation

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is awash with theoretical representations, which raises the question of how we should regard them. This book argues that representations in philosophy should not be regarded under a realist attitude by default as individually disclosing the nature of what they represent. Ori Simchen introduces the reader to the general theme of representations in philosophy and our attitudes towards them via case studies: numbers, modality, and bel...

Milton Friedman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Milton Friedman

Presents a selection of the critical literature commenting on the life and work of Milton Friedman and so gives students of economics and economic thought immediate access to Friedman's work and shows how his work has been received and modified.

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Philosophy of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

The Philosophy of Science

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).

Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: PediaPress

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The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main areas of the subject - the nature of evolutionary theory, classification, teleology and function, ecology, and the problematic relationship between biology and religion, among other topics. Up-to-date and comprehensive in its coverage, this unique volume will be of interest not only to professional philosophers but also to students in the humanities and researchers in the life sciences and related areas of inquiry.

Transforming Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Transforming Experience

Eldridge deconstructs Dewey's secular conception of the divine in the context of his instrumentalism, leading to a change in the purpose of Dewey's promotion of intelligent action and the implications of his elevation of the "problems of man" above "problems of philosophers."