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Peirce's scientific metaphysics : the philosophy of chance, law, and evolution /
"Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics is devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce's (1839-1914) metaphysics from the perspective of the scientific questions that motivated his thinking." "While offering a detailed account of the scientific ideas and theories essential for...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Vanderbilt library of American philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Scientific and Philosophical Background
- Naturphilosophie, Evolution, and the Law of Large Numbers
- Agnosticism, Necessitarianism, and the Mechanical Philosophy
- Synechism, Tychism, and Agapism
- Motivations for a Cosmology
- What Is a Hypothesis?
- Synechism
- Objective Idealism
- A Summary Statement of the Cosmology
- Irreversibility in Physics
- Nineteenth-Century Physics
- The Laws of Motion
- The Law of Vis Viva
- The Conservation of Energy Principle
- The Doctrine of the Conservation of Energy
- Conditions for Reversibility
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Kinetic Theory of Gases, and the Law of Large Numbers
- Irreversibility in Psychics
- The Law of Mind
- Causation and Mental Activity
- Teleology and the Action of Mind
- The Problem of Mind-Matter Reductionism
- What Is Time?
- Irreversibility in Physiology and Evolution
- Physiology
- The Molecular Theory of Protoplasm
- Protoplasm, Habit, and Nutrition
- Evolution
- The Influence of Darwin
- Peirce's Classification of Evolutionary Philosophies
- Cosmology and Synechism
- Order Out of Chaos
- Variation and the Law of Large Numbers
- Agapasm and the Law of Large Numbers
- Rival Cosmologies
- Elliptic Philosophy
- Parabolic Philosophy
- Hyperbolic Philosophy
- Peirce's Acquaintance with Modern Physics
- Chance and Law
- What Is Chance?
- The Laws of Chance
- The Law of Habit
- The Redundancy Problem
- The Incompatibility Problem
- Peirce and Prigogine.