Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


PhilPapersPhilPeoplePhilArchivePhilEventsPhilJobs

Results for 'Ryckman Thomas'

920 found
Order:

1 filter applied
  1.  15
    Einstein.ThomasRyckman -2017 - Routledge.
    Albert Einstein was the most influential physicist of the twentieth century. Less well-known is that fundamental philosophical problems, such as concept formation, the role of epistemology in developing and explaining the character of physical theories, and the debate between positivism and realism, played a central role in his thought as a whole.ThomasRyckman shows that already at the beginning of his career, at a time when the twin pillars of classical physics, Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell’s electromagnetism, were (...) known to have but limited validity, Einstein sought to advance physical theory by positing certain physical principles as secure footholds. That philosophy produced his greatest triumph, the general theory of relativity, and his greatest failure, an unwillingness to accept quantum mechanics. This book shows that Einstein’s philosophy grew from a lifelong aspiration for a unified theoretical representation encompassing all physical phenomena. It also considers how Einstein’s theories of relativity and criticisms of quantum theory have shaped the course of twentieth-century philosophy of science. Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, _Einstein_ is an ideal introduction to this iconic figure in twentieth-century science and philosophy. It is essential reading for students of philosophy of science, and also suitable for those working in related areas such as physics, history of science, or intellectual history. (shrink)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  2.  106
    The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics 1915–1925.ThomasRyckman -2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gravitation, known as "general relativity," was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory's existence, two main tendencies dominated its philosophical reception. This book is an extended argument that the path actually taken, which became logical empiricist philosophy of science, greatly contributed to the current impasse over realism, whereas (...) new possibilities are opened in revisiting and reviving the spirit of the more sophisticated tendency, a cluster of viewpoints broadly termed transcendental idealism, and furthering its articulation. It also emerges that Einstein, while paying lip service to the emerging philosophy of logical empiricism, ended up siding de facto with the latter tendency.Ryckman's work speaks to several groups, among them philosophers of science and historians of relativity. Equations are displayed as necessary, butRyckman gives the non-mathematical reader enough background to understand their occurrence in the context of his wider philosophical project. (shrink)
    Direct download(2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   77 citations  
  3.  151
    Invariance Principles as Regulative Ideals: From Wigner to Hilbert:ThomasRyckman.ThomasRyckman -2008 -Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 63:63-80.
    Eugene Wigner's several general discussions of symmetry and invariance principles are among the canonical texts of contemporary philosophy of physics. Wigner spoke from a position of authority, having pioneered for recognition of the importance of symmetry principles from nuclear to molecular physics. But perhaps recent commentators have not sufficiently stressed that Wigner always took care to situate the notion of invariance principles with respect to two others, initial conditions and laws of nature. Wigner's first such general consideration of invariance principles, (...) an address presented at Einstein's 70th birthday celebration, held in Princeton on 19 March 1949, began by laying out just this distinction, and in a way that seems to suggest that the three notions arise through abstraction in an analysis of the general problem of cognition in the natural sciences: The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found. The complications are called initial conditions; the domain of regularities, laws of nature. the underlying abstraction is probably one of the most fruitful the human mind has made. It has made the natural sciences possible. (shrink)
    Direct download(9 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  4.  44
    Two Roads from Kant: Cassirer, Reichenbach, and General Relativity.ThomasRyckman -2003 - In Paolo Parrini, Merrilee H. Salmon & Wesley C. Salmon,Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 159.
  5.  77
    Metaphysics Avoidance: Mark Wilson and Ernst Cassirer.ThomasRyckman -2021 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (2):466-472.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 103, Issue 2, Page 466-472, September 2021.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  6.  94
    Revised Factualism.Thomas C.Ryckman -1994 -The Monist 77 (2):207-216.
    I shall argue that those who hold that there are factual complexes, or facts, and who subscribe to a correspondence theory of truth, according to which truth is analyzed in terms of correspondence to facts, need not hold that, in addition to facts, there are propositions.
    Direct download(4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7.  51
    A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics.ThomasRyckman -2015 - In J. Tyler Friedman & Sebastian Luft,The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 65-102.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  8. The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique.ThomasRyckman -2010 - In Michael Friedman, Mary Domski & Michael Dickson,Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science. Open Court.
  9.  80
    Recovering First Philosophy in Philosophy of Physics.ThomasRyckman -2005 -Philosophy Today 49 (Supplement):13-22.
  10.  23
    Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori: Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932).Thomas A.Ryckman &D. Dieks -2011 - In Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber,Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. Springer. pp. 2--465.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11.  107
    Surplus structure from the standpoint of transcendental idealism: The "world geometries" of Weyl and Eddington.Thomas A.Ryckman -2003 -Perspectives on Science 11 (1):76-106.
  12.  73
    Belief, linguistic behavior, and propositional content.Thomas C.Ryckman -1986 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (2):277-287.
  13.  36
    The Millian Theory of Names and the Problems of Negative Existentials and Non-Referring Names.Thomas C.Ryckman -1988 - In D. F. Austin,Philosophical Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 241--249.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  14. What Carnap Might Have Learned from Weyl.ThomasRyckman -2016 - In Christian Damböck,Influences on the Aufbau. Cham: Springer Verlag.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  15.  25
    Effective Field Theories: A Case Study for Torretti’s Perspective on Kantian Objectivity.ThomasRyckman -2023 - In Cristián Soto,Current Debates in Philosophy of Science: In Honor of Roberto Torretti. Springer Verlag. pp. 61-79.
    Those enlightened philosophers of physics acknowledging some manner of descent from Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’ have long found encouragement and inspiration in the writings of Roberto Torretti. In this tribute, I focus on his “perspective on Kant’s perspective on objectivity” (2008), a short but highly stimulating attempt to extract the essential core of the Kantian doctrine that ‘objects of knowledge’ are constituted, not given, or with Roberto’s inimitable pungency, that “objectivity is an achievement, not a gift.” That essential core Roberto locates (...) in the Kantian notion of apperception, or self-activity, manifested in cognition in the idea of combination (Verbindung) or composition, which, Kant tells us, “among all ideas … is the one that is not given through objects, but can only be performed by the subject itself, because it is an act of self-activity” (B 130). I first rehearse Roberto’s proposal for how an imaginative interplay between sensibility and understanding can be fashioned via the productive imagination or power of reflective judgment (of the third Critique). In this way, the notion of composition in general, unfettered from needless period constraints issuing in “pure forms of sensibility” and “pure concepts of the understanding”, can be seen as the intellectual motor for the “free creation” of concepts celebrated by Einstein and others, furnishing structural scaffolding required to articulate and display physical objects and processes, a conceptual panoply that “cannot be fished out of the stream of impressions”. Roberto emphasizes that historical case studies are needed to evaluate his proposal, suggesting one himself, the continuous conceptual development inaugurated by Riemann’s Habilitätionsschrift (1854) resulting, some hundred years later, in the fiber bundle formalism of modern differential geometry and topology. I sketch a related suggestion, that the gauge groups of modern particle physics are the outcome of a similar line of conceptual advance, a structural scaffolding saving the phenomena of high-energy experiment within the framework of ‘effective field theory.’. (shrink)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16.  85
    Early philosophical interpretations of general relativity.Thomas A.Ryckman -2008 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  17. QBism : realism about what?ThomasRyckman -2023 - In Philipp Berghofer & Harald A. Wiltsche,Phenomenology and Qbism: New Approaches to Quantum Mechanics. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  266
    Cassirer and Dirac on the Symbolic Method in Quantum Mechanics: A Confluence of Opposites.ThomasRyckman -2018 -Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 6 (3).
    Determinismus und Indeterminismus in der modernen Physik is one of Cassirer’s least known and studied works, despite his own assessment as “one of his most important achievements”. A prominent theme locates quantum mechanics as a yet further step of the tendency within physical theory towards the purely functional theory of the concept and functional characterization of objectivity. In this respect DI can be considered an “update”, like the earlier monograph Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie: Erkenntnistheoretische Betrachtungen, to Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff, a seminal (...) work considering only classical and pre-relativistic physics. But how does DI cohere with the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms providing a systematic survey of symbolic meanings in diverse aspects of culture, each with its own mode of “objectification” via self-created signs and images? Cassirer’s “phenomenology of cognition” via distinct types of symbolic form locates Dirac’s Principles of Quantum Mechanics as an exemplar within physical theory of purely symbolic thought, a realm of pure relations and their correlated meanings. In particular, Dirac’s characterization of the new notion of “physical state” in quantum mechanics by a “symbolic algebra of observables” severed from particular representations points to a limiting pole of the Bedeutungsfunktion, the third and highest mode of symbolic formation. (shrink)
    Direct download(5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  19.  134
    What does History Matter to Philosophy of Physics?ThomasRyckman -2011 -Journal of the Philosophy of History 5 (3):496-512.
    Naturalized metaphysics remains a default presupposition of much contemporary philosophy of physics. As metaphysics is supposed to be about the general structure of reality, so a naturalized metaphysics draws upon our best physical theories: Assuming the truth of such a theory, it attempts to answer the “foundational question par excellence “, “how could the world possibly be the way this theory says it is?“ It is argued that attention to historical detail in the development and formulation of physical theories serves (...) as an ever-relevant hygienic corrective to the “sentiment of rationality“ underlying the naturalistic impulse to read ontology off of physics. (shrink)
    Direct download(6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  20.  58
    (1 other version)Designation and Convention: A Chapter of Early Logical Empiricism.Thomas A.Ryckman -1990 -PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:149 - 157.
    An examination of Carnap's Aufbau in the context of Schlick's Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre of ten years earlier, suggests that Carnap's focus there on the sign-relation (Zeichenbeziehung) is an effort to retrieve a verificationist account of the meaning of individual scientific statements from the abyss of meaning-holism entailed by Schlick's proposal that scientific concepts be implicitly defined. The Aufbau's antipodal aspects, its reductive phenomenalism and quasi-Kantian concern with the constitution of objectivity, are seen as complementary moments of the marriage of empiricism and (...) a new emphasis on scientific concepts as "free creations of the human mind". (shrink)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  21.  60
    On Bernard Harrision and rigid definite descriptions.Thomas C.Ryckman -1984 -Mind 93 (371):430-432.
    Direct download(5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  78
    On believing, saying and expressing.Thomas C.Ryckman -1989 -Synthese 79 (2):191 - 200.
    Examines the connections among believing, saying, and expressing in situations where the sentence used is a declarative sentence containing at least one proper name. Proposes a new way of understanding these connections. Develops an argument for the thesis that, although we typically believe the singular propositions expressed by our uses of name sentences, we rarely use such sentences because we believe those propositions.
    Direct download(4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  23.  104
    Bridging Two Gulfs: Hermann Weyl.ThomasRyckman -2012 -European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 8 (1):24-41.
  24.  77
    Why history matters to philosophy of physics.ThomasRyckman -2015 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 50:4-12.
  25.  104
    Contingency, a prioricity and acquaintance.Thomas C.Ryckman -1993 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (2):323-343.
  26.  61
    Dickie on artifactuality.Thomas C.Ryckman -1989 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2):175-177.
  27.  42
    Burge and the Hierarchy.Herbert Heidelberger &Thomas C.Ryckman -1981 -Critica 13 (39):83-85.
  28.  28
    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Thomas C.Ryckman -1992 -Mind 101 (402):397-401.
    No categories
    Direct download(3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  29.  53
    Norman Sieroka. Umgebungen: Symbolischer Konstruktivismus im Anschluss an Hermann Weyl und Fritz Medicus. Zurich: Chronos, 2010. Pp. 416. €43.00. [REVIEW]ThomasRyckman -2013 -Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1):164-168.
  30.  46
    Pauli's Exclusion Principle: the Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle, by Michela Massimi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. pp. xiv + 211, £45.00. [REVIEW]ThomasRyckman -2007 -Kantian Review 12 (2):187-189.
  31.  59
    The importance of being Weyl: Hermann Weyl: Philosophy of mathematics and natural science. With a new introduction by Frank Wilczek, Princeton University Press, 2009, 336 pp, $35.00. [REVIEW]ThomasRyckman -2011 -Metascience 20 (1):75-79.
    No categories
    Direct download(3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  32.  21
    Hilbert on General Covariance and Causality.Katherine Brading &ThomasRyckman -2018 - In David E. Rowe, Tilman Sauer & Scott A. Walter,Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century. New York, USA: Springer New York. pp. 67-77.
    Einstein and Hilbert both struggled to reconcile general covariance and causality in their early work on general relativity. In Einstein’s case, this first led to his infamous “hole argument”, a stumbling block that persuaded him early on that generally covariant field equations for gravitation could never be found. After his breakthrough to general covariance in the fall of 1915, the resolution came in form of the “point-coincidence argument.” Hilbert from the beginning took a different view of the “causality problem,” though (...) he shifted his position somewhat in the light of Einstein’s breakthrough in November 1915. Nevertheless, his aim was to establish initial conditions that would lead to a well-defined Cauchy problem in general relativity. Hilbert consistently advocated the use of coordinate conditions in order to obtain solutions of the field equations that would maintain the causal ordering of events. Einstein’s “causality problem” thus differs from that of Hilbert, and the latter was never a victim of Einstein’s “hole argument.”. (shrink)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33.  39
    Warren Schmaus is Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he has taught since completing graduate studies in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (Chicago, 1994), in additional to many articles concerning the philosophy.Gregory Moynahan,Thomas A.Ryckman &David Hyder -2003 -Perspectives on Science 11 (1).
  34.  83
    Review of William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith (eds.),Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity[REVIEW]ThomasRyckman -2010 -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (9).
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35.  78
    Chaos, Clio, and Scientistic Illusions of Understanding.Paul A. Roth &Thomas A.Ryckman -1995 -History and Theory 34 (1):30-44.
    A number of authors have recently argued that the mathematical insights of "chaos theory" offer a promising formal model or significant analogy for understanding at least some historical events. We examine a representative claim of each kind regarding the application of chaos theory to problems of historical explanation. We identify two lines of argument. One we term the Causal Thesis, which states that chaos theory may be used to plausibly model, and so explain, historical events. The other we term the (...) Convergence Thesis, which holds that, once the analogy between history and chaos theory is properly appreciated, any temptation to divide history from the rest of science should be greatly lessened. We argue that the proffered analogy between chaos theory and history falls apart upon closer analysis. The promised benefits of chaos theory vis-à-vis history are either fantastic or, at best, an extremely loose heuristic which, while retaining nothing of the considerable intrinsic interest of nonlinear dynamics, easily seduces the unwary into taking at face value terms and concepts that have a specifically precise meaning only within the confines of mathematical theory. (shrink)
    Direct download(3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  36.  70
    Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics. [REVIEW]T. A.Ryckman,Nancy Cartwright,Jordi Cat,Lola Fleck &Thomas E. Uebel -1998 -Philosophical Review 107 (2):327.
    Four distinguished authors have been brought together to produce this elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book is divided into three sections: Neurath's biographical background and the economic and social context of his ideas; his theory of science; and the development of his role in debates on Marxist concepts of history and his own conception of science. Coinciding with the emerging serious interest in logical positivism, this timely publication will redress a current imbalance in the history and philosophy of (...) science. (shrink)
    Direct download(6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   52 citations  
  37.  116
    Weyl, Reichenbach and the epistemology of geometry.RyckmanThomas -1994 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (6):831-870.
  38.  42
    Book Review:Overcoming Logical Positivism from within: The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence DebateThomas E. Uebel. [REVIEW]T. A.Ryckman -1995 -Philosophy of Science 62 (2):335-.
  39.  29
    ThomasRyckman, The reign of relativity, Oxford University Press, New York (2005) ISBN 0-19-517717-7 (330 pp., US $60.00). [REVIEW]N. Sieroka -2005 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (4):724-729.
  40.  42
    ThomasRyckman. The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, 1915–1925. ix + 317 pp., apps., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. $60. [REVIEW]Michael Stöltzner -2008 -Isis 99 (4):858-859.
  41.  13
    ThomasRyckman: The Reign of Relativity. Philosophy in Physics 1915–1925. [REVIEW]Mark Atten -2008 -Husserl Studies 24 (1):73-78.
  42.  15
    ThomasRyckman, the reign of relativity: Philosophy in physics, 1915–1925. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2005. Pp. IX+317. Isbn 0-19-517717-7. £36.50, $60.00. [REVIEW]Josipa Petrunic -2007 -British Journal for the History of Science 40 (2):306-307.
  43.  95
    ThomasRyckman: The reign of relativity. Philosophy in physics 1915–1925. [REVIEW]Mark van Atten -2008 -Husserl Studies 24 (1):73-78.
  44.  8
    ThomasRyckman's Einstein. [REVIEW]Tilman Sauer -2018 -BJPS Review of Books.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  45.  79
    Value and context: the nature of moral and political knowledge.AlanThomas -2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In Value and Context AlanThomas articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge but it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. In his exposition of "cognitive contextualism" in ethics and politics he makes wide-ranging use of contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory.
    Direct download(4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   22 citations  
  46.  168
    Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth.Thomas Douglas -2013 -Neuroethics 7 (1):75-91.
    It is plausible that we have moral reasons to become better at conforming to our moral reasons. However, it is not always clear what means to greater moral conformity we should adopt. John Harris has recently argued that we have reason to adopt traditional, deliberative means in preference to means that alter our affective or conative states directly—that is, without engaging our deliberative faculties. One of Harris’ concerns about direct means is that they would produce only a superficial kind of (...) moral improvement. Though they might increase our moral conformity, there is some deeper kind of moral improvement that they would fail to produce, or would produce to a lesser degree than more traditional means. I consider whether this concern might be justified by appeal to the concept of moral worth. I assess three attempts to show that, even where they were equally effective at increasing one’s moral conformity, direct interventions would be less conducive to moral worth than typical deliberative alternatives. Each of these attempts is inspired by Kant’s views on moral worth. Each, I argue, fails. (shrink)
    Direct download(9 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   29 citations  
  47.  77
    Clarity and Survival in the Zhuangzi.Thomas Radice -2001 -Asian Philosophy 11 (1):33-40.
    This paper is an analysis of the term ming in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi. I show that though ming does involve the realization of the fundamental unity of opposites, the realization of this unity does not force the Zhuangzi to endorse a 'radical relativist' stance on morality, since the perspective of the Sage through ming is shown to be a privileged perspective. Overall, the Zhuangzi does not endorse any normative stance on morality. Rather, it endorses a way of (...) life that will ensure one's own personal survival and the survival of this fundamental unity of opposites. The stories of the useless tree in Chapter 4, the skillful cook in Chapter 3, and the death of Hundun in Chapter 7 serve as examples for my interpretation. (shrink)
    Direct download(8 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  48. Infinitesimals as an issue of neo-Kantian philosophy of science.Thomas Mormann &Mikhail Katz -2013 -Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2):236-280.
    We seek to elucidate the philosophical context in which one of the most important conceptual transformations of modern mathematics took place, namely the so-called revolution in rigor in infinitesimal calculus and mathematical analysis. Some of the protagonists of the said revolution were Cauchy, Cantor, Dedekind,and Weierstrass. The dominant current of philosophy in Germany at the time was neo-Kantianism. Among its various currents, the Marburg school (Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer, and others) was the one most interested in matters scientific and mathematical. Our (...) main thesis is that Marburg neo-Kantian philosophy formulated a sophisticated position towards the problems raised by the concepts of limits and infinitesimals. The Marburg school neither clung to the traditional approach of logically and metaphysically dubious infinitesimals, nor whiggishly subscribed to the new orthodoxy of the “great triumvirate” of Cantor, Dedekind, and Weierstrass that declared infinitesimals conceptus nongrati in mathematical discourse. Rather, following Cohen’s lead, the Marburg philosophers sought to clarify Leibniz’s principle of continuity, and to exploit it in making sense of infinitesimals and related concepts. (shrink)
    Direct download(5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  49.  173
    On the cluster account of art.Thomas Adajian -2003 -British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (4):379-385.
    The cluster account of art is a purportedly non-definitional account of art, inspired by Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance, and recently defended by Berys Gaut. Gaut does not provide good reasons to think that art is not definable, and his approach to possible counterexamples to the cluster account would, applied consistently, preclude this. The cluster account's theory of error, its resources for accounting for borderline cases, and its heuristic usefulness are not impressive. Reasons strong enough to warrant accepting the cluster (...) account, it is concluded, have not been given. (shrink)
    Direct download(4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  50.  117
    What is it like to be a geologist? A phenomenology of geology and its epistemological implications.Thomas Raab &Robert Frodeman -2002 -Philosophy and Geography 5 (1):69 – 81.
    In previous work we have described the nature of geologic reasoning and the relation between the geological observer and the outcrop which is the object of their study. We now turn to further consideration of the epistemological aspects of geology that have been largely neglected by twentieth century epistemology. Our basic claim is that the experiential facts of geological field work do not fit with a philosophy of science that has evolved out of considerations on the laboratory sciences. Shifting our (...) focus from the lab to the field offers a more embodied, historical, and fallibilistic understanding of geology. (shrink)
    Direct download(3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
1 — 50 / 920
Export
Limit to items.
Filters





Configure languageshere.Sign in to use this feature.

Viewing options


Open Category Editor
Off-campus access
Using PhilPapers from home?

Create an account to enable off-campus access through your institution's proxy server or OpenAthens.


[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp