Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology
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Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology
(Series on the foundations of natural science and technology, v. 5)
World Scientific, c2003
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Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.The three main theses are: (1) Any “grasping” of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs — in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependent realism is sketched out and defended from a methodological, non-foundational, epistemological point of view called pragmatic realism; (3) the most provocative thesis is generalized from the role of the well-known preparationist interpretation of quantum theory to everyday knowledge — the interpretative structuring and preparing of the experimental make-up as known in quantum mechanics is not just a special case but the rather general case of gaining any knowledge in science and everyday recognition.An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.
Table of Contents
- "Grasping" as Interpretation and Impregnation
- Methodological Outline of the Systematic Scheme Interpretationism
- Short Note about "Grasping" in Traditional Philosophy
- "Truth" as a Metatheoretic Interpretative Construct
- A Reappraisal Regarding "Theories" and "Theoretical Concepts": Towards an Action-Theoretical and Technology-Oriented Philosophy of Science and Epistemology
- Reality Constructs and Different "Realisms"
- From a Kantian Towards a Problematistic-Interpretationist Approach
- Referential Realism as an Interactionist Interpretationism
- Interpretation of Reality and Quantum Theory
- Resume: "Grasping" as Acting in (Re)cognizing
- Appendix - Progress and Characteristics of Traditional and New Technologies: Regarding a Realistic and Pragmatic Philosophy of Technology.
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