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Philosophy and the 'Dazzling Ideal' of Science
Engelsk Hardback
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Engelsk Hardback

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Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy''s possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the "dazzling ideal" of science. This ''dazzling ideal'' incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation-whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained-and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a scientistic world-view, what need is there for philosophy?

 In his defense of philosophy (and its truth-claims), McFee shows that rejecting such scientism is not automatically anti-scientific, and that it permits granting to natural science (properly understood) its own truth-generating power. Further, McFee argues for contextualism in the project of philosophy, and sets aside the pervasive (and pernicious) requirement for exceptionless generalizations while relating his account to interconnections between the concepts of person, substance, agency, and causation.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
338
ISBN-13:
9783030216740
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030216748
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 sep 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
6 sep 2019
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