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The World Observed/the World Conceived.

Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. The World Observed/The World Conceivedpresents an innovative analysis of the nature and role of observation and conceptualization. While these two actions are often treated as separat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Radder, Hans (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : Chicago : University of Pittsburgh Press Chicago Distribution Center [distributor] July 2006
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Observation and Conceptual Interpretation Part 1: The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes
  • The Absence of Experience in Empiricism
  • The Conceptual Analysis of Observation
  • The Interaction-Information Theory of Observability and Observation
  • Connectionist Accounts of Observation
  • A Hermeneutical Approach to Perception
  • The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes
  • How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from It
  • How Concepts Structure the World
  • The Extensibility of Concepts to Novel Observational Processes
  • Extensible Concepts, Abstraction, and Nonlocals
  • Wider Philosophical Implications
  • Abstraction, Formalization, and Digitization
  • Aristotelian Abstraction and Scientific Theorizing
  • Abstraction and the Extension of Actor Networks
  • Meaning Finitism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
  • Product Patenting as the Exploitation of Abstract Possibilities
  • Naturalism, Antinaturalism, and Critique.