03926nam 22005175 450 991039085540332120251117023529.03-030-41124-910.1007/978-3-030-41124-4(CKB)5300000000003583(MiAaPQ)EBC6132457(DE-He213)978-3-030-41124-4(EXLCZ)99530000000000358320200306d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries /by Amihud Gilead1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2020.1 online resource (320 pages)Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,0166-6991 ;4243-030-41123-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism -- 3. A Panenmentalist Consideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles -- 4. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account -- 5. Mathematical Possibilities and their Discovery -- 6. A Panenmentalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings -- 7. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries -- 8. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals -- 9. Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals -- 10. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities -- 11. Quantum Pure Possibility and Macroscopic Physics -- 12. Brain-images and the Human Mind -- 13. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities -- 14. Milgram’s Experience and Saving Possibilities -- 15. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits? -- References -- Index.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.Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,0166-6991 ;424Philosophy and scienceLogic, Symbolic and mathematicalPhilosophy of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000Mathematical Logic and Foundationshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M24005Philosophy and science.Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.Philosophy of Science.Mathematical Logic and Foundations.501Gilead Amihudauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut864976MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910390855403321The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science1981975UNINA