The panenmentalist philosophy of science : from the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries
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The panenmentalist philosophy of science : from the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries
(Synthese library, v. 424)
Springer, c2020
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-304) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.
目次
Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism3. A Panenmentalist Consideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles4. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account5. Mathematical Possibilities and their Discovery6. A Panenmentalist Approach to Molyneux's Problem and Some Empirical Findings7. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries8. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay's Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals9. Shechtman's Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals10. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities11. Quantum Pure Possibility and Macroscopic Physics12. Brain-images and the Human Mind13. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities14. Milgram's Experience and Saving Possibilities15. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?ReferencesIndex
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