The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science : From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries / / by Amihud Gilead

• Autore: Gilead Amihud
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy and science; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Philosophy of Science; Mathematical Logic and Foundations
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
• ISBN: 3-030-41124-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910390855403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, . 0166-6991 ; ; 424