1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255214903321

Autore

Cellucci Carlo

Titolo

Rethinking Knowledge : The Heuristic View / / by Carlo Cellucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-53237-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 427 p. 34 illus.)

Collana

European Studies in Philosophy of Science, , 2365-4228 ; ; 4

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Philosophy and science

Logic

Epistemology

Philosophy of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Heuristic View -- 3. The Foundationalist View -- 4. The Limits of Skepticism -- 5. Philosophy and the Humanistic Disciplines -- 6. The Nature of Knowledge -- 7. Knowledge to Reality -- 8. Knowledge and Truth -- 9. Knowledge, Plausibly, and Common Sense -- 10. Other Questions About Knowledge -- 11. A Discourse on Method -- 12. The Method of Knowledge -- 13. Knowledge as Problem Solving -- 14. Modeling Scientific Knowledge -- 15. Perceptual Knowledge -- 16. Knowledge and Error -- 17. Knowledge and Mind -- 18. The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge -- 19. Mathematical Objects, Definitions, Diagrams -- 20. Mathematics: Problem Solving or Theorem Proving? -- 21. Two Notions of Mathematical Demonstration -- 22. Mathematical Explanations -- 23. Mathematical Beauty -- 24. Mathematics and Reality -- 25. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what kind of philosophy can be such. The author argues that from its very beginning philosophy has focused on knowledge and



methods for acquiring knowledge. This view, however, has generally been abandoned in the last century with the belief that, unlike the sciences, philosophy makes no observations or experiments and requires only thought. Thus, in order for philosophy to once again be relevant, it needs to return to its roots and focus on knowledge as well as methods for acquiring knowledge. Accordingly, this book deals with several questions about knowledge that are essential to this view of philosophy, including mathematical knowledge. Coverage examines such issues as the nature of knowledge; plausibility and common sense; knowledge as problem solving; modeling scientific knowledge; mathematical objects, definitions, diagrams; mathematics and reality; and more. This monograph presents a new approach to philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with interests in the role of knowledge, the analytic method, models of science, and mathematics and reality.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996657071803316

Autore

ASENSI, Manuel

Titolo

Material Spirit : religion and Literature Intranscendent / Carl Good, Manuel Asensi ; Gregory C. Stallings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Fordham University Press, [2013]

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (VIII, 229 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Disciplina

210

Soggetti

Religione

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

I saggi di questa raccolta esaminano testi filosofici, religiosi, letterari o artistici utilizzando metodologie e approfondimenti nati dalla riflessione sulla letteratura e sull'arte. In essi, l'espressione "spirito materiale" diventa un punto di partenza per considerare i continui effetti spettrali dei testi e delle preoccupazioni religiose in modi che



non richiedono o presuppongono semplicemente forme nuove o rinnovate di religiosità. Gli autori di questa raccolta cercano di esaminare la religione al di là delle tradizionali nozioni di trascendenza: i loro argomenti spaziano dalle prime pratiche religiose cristiane al cambiamento climatico globale. Alcuni saggi esplorano temi o toni religiosi in testi letterari, ad esempio opere di Wordsworth, Hopkins, Proust, Woolf e Teresa d'Avila. Altri si avvicinano – in un'ottica di critica letteraria – ad autori filosofici o parafilosofici come Bataille, Husserl, Derrida e Benjamin. Altri ancora trattano autori di un orientamento più esplicitamente religioso, come Agostino, Rosenzweig o Bernardo di Chiaravalleor Bernard of Clairvaux.