The Clash of the Images - Why the Manifest Image and the Scientific Image Are Incompatible

In everyday life, we take there to be ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and stones bearing certain properties such as color and shape and standing in various causal relationships to each other. Basic convictions such as these form our everyday picture of the world: the manifest image. The scientific image, on the other hand, is a system of beliefs that is only based on scientific results. It contains many beliefs that are not contained in the manifest image. At first glance, this may not seem to be a problem. But Mulamustafic shows convincingly that this is a mistake: The world as it is in itself cannot be both the way the manifest image depicts it and the way the scientific image describes it to be.

About the author

Adem Mulamustafić studied and completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His areas of specialization are metaphysics, philosophy of science, and critical thinking.

Summary

In everyday life, we take there to be ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and stones bearing certain properties such as color and shape and standing in various causal relationships to each other. Basic convictions such as these form our everyday picture of the world: the manifest image.
The scientific image, on the other hand, is a system of beliefs that is only based on scientific results. It contains many beliefs that are not contained in the manifest image. At first glance, this may not seem to be a problem. But Mulamustafić shows convincingly that this is a mistake: The world as it is in itself cannot be both the way the manifest image depicts it and the way the scientific image describes it to be.

Product details

• Authors: Adem Mulamustafic, Adem Mulamustafić
• Publisher: Schwabe Verlag Basel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2022
• EAN: 9783757400651
• ISBN: 978-3-7574-0065-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 21 mm x 226 mm
• Weight: 451 g
• Illustrations: 10 Farbabb.
• Series: Theoria
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Colors, Kant, Color, Philosophy of Science, Colours, Idealism, Common sense, Eddington, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, Philosophie: Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie, Colour, theoria, Scientific Image, Metaphysics, manifest image, scientific realism, Sellars, Wilfrid, world in itself, everyday picture of the world, naïve realism, common sense view