On Knowing--The Natural SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press, 12.05.2018 - 420 Seiten Well before the current age of discourse, deconstruction, and multiculturalism, Richard McKeon propounded a philosophy of pluralism showing how "facts" and "values" are dependent on diverse ways of reading texts. This book is a transcription of an entire course, including both lectures and student discussions, taught by McKeon. As such, it provides an exciting introduction to McKeon's conception of pluralism, a central aspect of neo-Pragmatism, while demonstrating how pluralism works in a classroom setting. In his lectures, McKeon outlines the entire history of Western thinking on the sciences. Treating the central concepts of motion, space, time, and cause, he traces modern intellectual debates back to the ancient Greeks, notably Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, and the Sophists. As he brings the story of Western science up to the twentieth century, he uses his fabled semantic schema (reproduced here for the first time) to uncover new ideas and observations about cosmology, mechanics, dynamics, and other aspects of physical science. Illustrating the broad historical sweep of the lectures are a series of discussions which give detail to the course's intellectual framework. These discussions of Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and Maxwell are perhaps the first published rendition of a philosopher in literal dialogue with his students. Led by McKeon's pointed questioning, the discussions reveal the difficulties and possibilities of learning to engage in serious intellectual communication. |
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... begin to examine the as- sumptions in terms of which you do these methods or establish them — you very seldom look at the history ; that's quite irrelevant — and when you get around to the assumptions , at the last point you discover ...
... begin to examine the as- sumptions in terms of which you do these methods or establish them — you very seldom look at the history ; that's quite irrelevant — and when you get around to the assumptions , at the last point you discover ...
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... begin to emerge , and the socialists and the communists dream of this . Or , finally , there is the obvious possibility in dealing with all of these ap- proaches that it's a mere fiction to talk about an outside world which somehow ...
... begin to emerge , and the socialists and the communists dream of this . Or , finally , there is the obvious possibility in dealing with all of these ap- proaches that it's a mere fiction to talk about an outside world which somehow ...
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... begin with immediate experi- ence , the phenomenological state in which each of us has a big , buzzing confu- sion that James said was the nature of consciousness ; and out of that we will develop the various kinds of knowledge ...
... begin with immediate experi- ence , the phenomenological state in which each of us has a big , buzzing confu- sion that James said was the nature of consciousness ; and out of that we will develop the various kinds of knowledge ...
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... begin with the basic structure that knowledge approximates to , then , obviously , the knower is likewise an example of those relations : thinking is just another term for motion , atoms in the brain are a little smaller and move faster ...
... begin with the basic structure that knowledge approximates to , then , obviously , the knower is likewise an example of those relations : thinking is just another term for motion , atoms in the brain are a little smaller and move faster ...
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... begin with the man , your friend , who takes his beginning from the known . I will frequently use the device of giving you the first exposition in terms of what the Greeks said , not necessarily because the Greeks were clearer ...
... begin with the man , your friend , who takes his beginning from the known . I will frequently use the device of giving you the first exposition in terms of what the Greeks said , not necessarily because the Greeks were clearer ...
Inhalt
1 | |
12 | |
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Method | 60 |
Method Part 2 and Principle | 72 |
Discussion Aristotle Physics | 84 |
Interpretation | 118 |
Discussion Galileo Two New Sciences | 130 |
Interpretation Method and Principle | 330 |
Discussion Review | 342 |
Class Schedule | 357 |
Selected Lecture Notes on Necessity Probability and Nature | 359 |
Selected Lecture Notes on Democritus and the Sophists | 362 |
Selected Lecture Notes on Cause | 364 |
Complete Lecture Notes for Lecture 10 | 368 |
Discussion Notes For Einstein | 373 |
Selection | 185 |
Selection Part 2 | 194 |
Discussion Newton Principia Mathematica | 208 |
Method Interpretation and Principle | 281 |
Method Interpretation and Principle | 292 |
Discussion Maxwell Matter and Motion | 304 |
Final Examinations | 378 |
Schema of Philosophic Semantics | 380 |
Notes | 381 |
Index | 395 |
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absolute space accelerated motion accelerative answer argument Aristotle atoms begin body cause centripetal force Clerk Maxwell comprehensive principle conception Consequently DAVIS deal definition Democritus Descartes dialectical discussion distance equal equation essentialist existentialist experience FLANDERS Galileo give GOREN gravity HENDERSON holoscopic impressed force inertia involved kinds of motion knowable knower knowledge lecture logistic method look MAROVSKI mathematics matter MCKEON mean measure meroscopic MILSTEIN Miss Frankl mode of thought momentum move nature Newton notice ontic ontological operational method operationalist particles pendulum phenomena philosophic physics plane Plato potential Principia Mathematica principle of motion proposition quantity quantum mechanics question reason relation relative respect ROTH Sagredo scholium sense soul STERN STUDENT Suppose talking tell there's things Timaeus tion uniform motion universal methods variables velocity What's whole WILCOX words world soul