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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... equations in mathematics . Then you 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 ...
... equations in mathematics . Then you 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 ...
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... equation that could be written in terms of time and space to deal with problems of gravitation began with Galileo ... equations in which T2 does not appear , primarily started on a new paradigm . If you take this approach and use the ...
... equation that could be written in terms of time and space to deal with problems of gravitation began with Galileo ... equations in which T2 does not appear , primarily started on a new paradigm . If you take this approach and use the ...
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... equation for the phenomena of quantum mechanics which would remove the indeterminacy . Einstein was convinced of ... equation . Toward the end he was convinced that he had written it , but he thought the establishment , the demonstration ...
... equation for the phenomena of quantum mechanics which would remove the indeterminacy . Einstein was convinced of ... equation . Toward the end he was convinced that he had written it , but he thought the establishment , the demonstration ...
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... equation . You'll notice that the mode of assimilation , assimilating all together , has a tendency to move upward into the realm of transcendence , and transcendence is one of the favorite words of this manner of philosophy . Suppose ...
... equation . You'll notice that the mode of assimilation , assimilating all together , has a tendency to move upward into the realm of transcendence , and transcendence is one of the favorite words of this manner of philosophy . Suppose ...
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... equation , and proceed with the motion . Notice that as I've stated them , each one of these hypotheses is plausible ... equations in which the whole is prior and the part is posterior . You go into a topological examination rather than ...
... equation , and proceed with the motion . Notice that as I've stated them , each one of these hypotheses is plausible ... equations in which the whole is prior and the part is posterior . You go into a topological examination rather than ...
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