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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... conceptions of philosophy but also four different conceptions of science . Bear in mind that I'm merely giving you the large , generic distinctions . Under each of these headings there will be more distinctions , and , therefore , the ...
... conceptions of philosophy but also four different conceptions of science . Bear in mind that I'm merely giving you the large , generic distinctions . Under each of these headings there will be more distinctions , and , therefore , the ...
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... conceptions of motion would be , because those of you who are going to read the books in the course and discuss them with me will , from this point on , be coming into these various approaches . The readings start with the ancients ...
... conceptions of motion would be , because those of you who are going to read the books in the course and discuss them with me will , from this point on , be coming into these various approaches . The readings start with the ancients ...
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... conception of space is that he got space mixed up with matter : when he's describing matter , he calls it space . Now , if you are ap- proaching this purely in the terms of ordinary language , you might easily say , Well , this is ...
... conception of space is that he got space mixed up with matter : when he's describing matter , he calls it space . Now , if you are ap- proaching this purely in the terms of ordinary language , you might easily say , Well , this is ...
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... conception of space , again arising from motion , namely , Aristotle's space . Notice that for Plato , his kind of space is needed for all kinds of motion ; therefore , as Plato sees it , space is a principle of motion . For Aristotle ...
... conception of space , again arising from motion , namely , Aristotle's space . Notice that for Plato , his kind of space is needed for all kinds of motion ; therefore , as Plato sees it , space is a principle of motion . For Aristotle ...
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... conception of motion that we distinguished and see if we can relate it to the idea of space that we are setting up for it . For Democri- tus , only bodies move . Whereas we said that for Aristotle , though only bodies have local motion ...
... conception of motion that we distinguished and see if we can relate it to the idea of space that we are setting up for it . For Democri- tus , only bodies move . Whereas we said that for Aristotle , though only bodies have local motion ...
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