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Yorick's World : Science and the Knowing Subject /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[1993]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2019 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Explanation
- Preface to Part I
- 1. Aspects of Hempel's Philosophy of Science
- 2. Science and System:
- 3. Gosse's Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief
- 4. Creationism and Evolution
- Part II: Hume's Problem
- Preface to Part II
- 5. The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager
- 6. The Structure of Discovery
- 7. Induction and the Kindness of Nature
- Part III: Logic and Causality
- Preface to Part III
- 8. Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable
- 9. Mach's Principle and the Laws of Logic
- 10. A Quantum Theory of Causality
- 11. A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle
- Part IV: Machines and Practices
- Preface to Part IV
- 12. Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature
- 13. Praxis and Techne
- 14. On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis
- 15. Individual Praxis in Real Time
- 16. Towards a Philosophy of Technology
- 17. Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly
- Part V: Scientific Knowledge- Its Scope and Limits
- Preface to Part V
- 18. Is There (Scientific) Knowledge? Who Knows?
- 19. The Law of Quantity and Quality, or What Numbers Can and Can't Describe
- 20. On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
- 21. On a Circularity in Our Knowledge of the Physically Real
- 22. Truth and Presence
- Part VI. Science and Subjectivity
- Preface to Part VI
- 23. Science, Surrealism, and the Status of the Subject
- 24. Subjectivity in the Machine
- 25. Rethinking Intentionality
- 26. Yorick's World, or the Universe in a Single Skull
- 27. A Case for the Human Sciences
- Notes
- Notes on Sources
- Index