Grasping reality [[electronic resource] ] : an interpretation-realistic epistemology / / Hans Lenk

• Autore: Lenk Hans
• Pubblicazione: River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Theory of; Realism; Science - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Preface ; 1. ""Grasping"" as Interpretation and Impregnation ; 2. Methodological Outline of the Systematic Scheme-Interpretationism ; 3. Short Note about ""Grasping"" in Traditional Philosophy ; 4. ""Truth"" as a Metatheoretic Interpretative Construct ; 5. A Reappraisal Regarding ""Theories"" and ""Theoretical Concepts"": Towards an Action-Theoretical and Technology-Oriented Philosophy of Science and Epistemology Substantive vs. Operative Theories ; Truth or Fitting/Feasibility? ; Understanding ""Theories"" in Science ; Experiments, Actions and Knowledge ; An Interpretationist and Schematheoretic Approach 6. Reality Constructs and Different ""Realisms"" ; 7. From a Kantian Towards a Problematistic- Interpretationist Approach ; 8. Referential Realism as an Interactionist Interpretationism ; 9. Interpretation of Reality and Quantum Theory ; 10. Resume: ""Grasping"" as Acting in (Re)cognizing Appendix - Progress and Characteristics of Traditional and New Technologies: Regarding a Realistic and Pragmatic Philosophy of Technology ; Literature + References ; Name Index ; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <i>Grasping Reality</i> addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point. The three main theses are: (1) Any "grasping" of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs - in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependen
• Titolo autorizzato: Grasping reality
• ISBN: 1-281-93592-1; 9786611935924; 981-279-557-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782285503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series on the foundations of natural science and technology ; ; 5.