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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3030411249

This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.

Singularity and Other Possibilities

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9789042009349

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This book elaborates the author's original metaphysics, panenmentalism, focusing on novel aspects of the singularity of any person. Among these aspects, integrated in a systematic view, are: love and singularity; private, intersubjective, and public accessibility; multiple personality; freedom of will; akrasia; a way out of the empiricist-rationalist conundrum; the possibility of God; and some major moral questions.

A Panenmentalist Philosophy of Literature, or How Does Actual Reality Imitate Pure Possibilities?

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1527534553

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The relationship between the literary imagination, literary possibilities, and actual reality poses a major philosophical problem in the field of the metaphysics of literature. This detailed analysis of some literary masterpieces, by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, demonstrates that actual reality actualizes or “imitates” literary pure possibilities. As such, these masterpieces should be treated not as romans a clef, but, instead, as paradigm-cases on whose basis we grasp and understand actual reality.

Necessity and Truthful Fictions

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 904202920X

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This book discovers areas and themes, especially in philosophical psychology, for novel observations and investigations, the diversity of which is systematically unified within the frame of the author’s original metaphysics, panenmentalism. The book demonstrates how by means of truthful fictions we may detect meaningful possibilities as well as their necessary relationships that otherwise could not be discovered.

A Realistic Theory of Science

Author: Clifford Alan Hooker

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780887063152

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This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition, pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of science both as research and as culture. It summarizes the present confused and highly polarized status of the orthodox philosophy of science. It exhibits clearly the fundamental metaphysical and global presuppositions and confusions that have led to this status. It provides a positive point of view from which progress can be made toward understanding science as research done by real scientists rather than science as exemplifying some prior epistemological program created by philosophers. And it leads directly to an understanding of science as a dynamic force within our society with consequences for the environment and public policy.

Scientism

Author: Tom Sorell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 113484123X

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 3030841979

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This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens

Author: Amihud Gilead

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3030548104

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This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza’s philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza’s concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza’s philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza’s system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza’s reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply “entities of imagination.” The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza’s Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza’s philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

Beyond Reduction

Author: Steven Horst

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2007-08-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0195317114

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The Philosophy of Science: A-M

Author: Sahotra Sarkar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780415977098

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The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).