The Search for a Naturalistic World View - Volume 1

This two-volume 1993 collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Integral epistemology; 2. Reality, causality and closing the circle; 3. Search for a world view that can accommodate our knowledge of microphysics; 4. Perception from an evolutionary point of view; 5. Is observation theory-laden? A problem in naturalistic epistemology; 6. Coherence and the axioms of confirmation; 7. An adamite derivation of the principles of the calculus of probability; 8. The status of the principle of maximum entropy; 9. Scientific inference; 10. Reconsiderations on inductive logic; 11. Comments on two epistemological these of Thomas Kuhn; 12. Comment on Martin Eger's A Tale of Two Controversies; Index.

Summary

This two-volume 1993 collection of Abner Shimony's essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Abner Shimony
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9780521373524
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37352-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 719 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)