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Experience and Beyond
The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics
Faye, Jan
Springer International Publishing AG
06/2018
350
Mole
Inglês
9783319809571
15 a 20 dias
481
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Preface and Introduction.-
1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.-
Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and Human
Cognition.- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy of
naturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception,
and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumental
observation.- Observability.-
4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and external
commitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.-
Structural realism.- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language,
and Objectivity.- What is
truth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notion
of truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.- Common
sense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objects
versus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defence
of Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars and
universals.- Conceptualism.- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.-
The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-time
as an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9
Causality and Counterfactuality.- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10
Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representational
knowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worlds
and multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.- 11
Conclusion.- Bibliography.
1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.-
Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and Human
Cognition.- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy of
naturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception,
and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumental
observation.- Observability.-
4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and external
commitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.-
Structural realism.- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language,
and Objectivity.- What is
truth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notion
of truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.- Common
sense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objects
versus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defence
of Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars and
universals.- Conceptualism.- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.-
The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-time
as an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9
Causality and Counterfactuality.- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10
Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representational
knowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worlds
and multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.- 11
Conclusion.- Bibliography.
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Preface and Introduction.-
1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.-
Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and Human
Cognition.- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy of
naturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception,
and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumental
observation.- Observability.-
4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and external
commitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.-
Structural realism.- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language,
and Objectivity.- What is
truth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notion
of truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.- Common
sense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objects
versus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defence
of Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars and
universals.- Conceptualism.- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.-
The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-time
as an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9
Causality and Counterfactuality.- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10
Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representational
knowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worlds
and multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.- 11
Conclusion.- Bibliography.
1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.-
Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and Human
Cognition.- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy of
naturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception,
and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumental
observation.- Observability.-
4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and external
commitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.-
Structural realism.- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language,
and Objectivity.- What is
truth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notion
of truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.- Common
sense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objects
versus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defence
of Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars and
universals.- Conceptualism.- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.-
The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-time
as an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9
Causality and Counterfactuality.- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10
Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representational
knowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worlds
and multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.- 11
Conclusion.- Bibliography.
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