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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... deal with practical life , including your newspaper - and push it far enough , it is a philosophic problem . " Pushing it far enough " means only that you push it to the point at which the regular procedures that you use in its solution ...
... deal with practical life , including your newspaper - and push it far enough , it is a philosophic problem . " Pushing it far enough " means only that you push it to the point at which the regular procedures that you use in its solution ...
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... deals with issues that can be identified as philosophic problems . It's that identification that I want to deal with now , but I will also be doing it throughout these lectures . Therefore , this is just an initial step . If it is the ...
... deals with issues that can be identified as philosophic problems . It's that identification that I want to deal with now , but I will also be doing it throughout these lectures . Therefore , this is just an initial step . If it is the ...
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... deal with problems of gravitation began with Galileo . Likewise , the world was changed with our understanding of the world as a result of the innovation of Newton . The same thing holds for the innovation of Einstein . A year ago the ...
... deal with problems of gravitation began with Galileo . Likewise , the world was changed with our understanding of the world as a result of the innovation of Newton . The same thing holds for the innovation of Einstein . A year ago the ...
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... deal with . So let me use it to differentiate , by taking in succes- sion each one of the terms as fundamental , what throughout these lectures I shall want to call four modes of thought . Suppose we take knowledge as fundamental ...
... deal with . So let me use it to differentiate , by taking in succes- sion each one of the terms as fundamental , what throughout these lectures I shall want to call four modes of thought . Suppose we take knowledge as fundamental ...
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... deal with the problems of motion , space , time , and cause.8 Next time I will go on in this lecture process and carry further the schema- tism that I've talked about . In our first discussion , we will deal with Plato's Timaeus . Read ...
... deal with the problems of motion , space , time , and cause.8 Next time I will go on in this lecture process and carry further the schema- tism that I've talked about . In our first discussion , we will deal with Plato's Timaeus . Read ...
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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