Chasing Reality: Strife Over RealismUniversity of Toronto Press, 1 jan. 2006 - 342 sidor Chasing Reality deals with the controversies over the reality of the external world. Distinguished philosopher Mario Bunge offers an extended defence of realism, a critique of various forms of contemporary anti-realism, and a sketch of his own version of realism, namely hylorealism. Bunge examines the main varieties of antirealism - Berkeley's, Hume's, and Kant's; positivism, phenomenology, and constructivism - and argues that all of these in fact hinder scientific research. Bunge's realist contention is that genuine explanations in the sciences appeal to causal laws and mechanisms that are not directly observable, rather than simply to empirical generalisations. Genuine science, in his view, is objective even when it deals with subjective phenomena such as feelings of fear. This work defends a realist view of universals, kinds, possibilities, and dispositions, while rejecting contemporary accounts of these that are couched in terms of modal logic and 'possible worlds.' |
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... 218 1/Universal 218 2/Kind 223 3/Possibility 226 4/ A Surfeit of Worlds 228 5/ Many-Worlds Metaphysics Is Inexact 232 6/Counterfactuals 236 7/Disposition 239 8/ Space and Time 244 9/ Free Will and Liberty Contents ix.
... Space and Event 290 4/Process 293 5/ Objective Pattern and Law-Statement 295 6/ Lawful State Space 297 7/ Concluding Remarks 300 REFERENCES 303 INDEX OF NAMES 327 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 335 Preface Nowadays billions of us spend long hours ...
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