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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... reason arranging all things . Plato puts it very clearly : what is most truly is the ideas . And the ideas are not things in the psychological mind ; they are the conditions of reality , conditions of reality which are such that the ...
... reason arranging all things . Plato puts it very clearly : what is most truly is the ideas . And the ideas are not things in the psychological mind ; they are the conditions of reality , conditions of reality which are such that the ...
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... reason I begin with Howard is that Howie always makes distinc- tions and his friends always collapse the distinctions ; therefore , if you get his distinctions out first , you can see what his friends are talking about . It does not ...
... reason I begin with Howard is that Howie always makes distinc- tions and his friends always collapse the distinctions ; therefore , if you get his distinctions out first , you can see what his friends are talking about . It does not ...
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... reason why you like it , you can be scientific about that . But the good ? It's merely your feelings , other people's feelings , what you can persuade them of , and the rest . The third person we'll bring in is slightly ahead of ...
... reason why you like it , you can be scientific about that . But the good ? It's merely your feelings , other people's feelings , what you can persuade them of , and the rest . The third person we'll bring in is slightly ahead of ...
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... reason being that it was prenatal . Even though the fetus was injured , the fetus was not a person , it had not yet been generated ; therefore , no one could bring suit on its behalf . The mother could bring suit , she had been ...
... reason being that it was prenatal . Even though the fetus was injured , the fetus was not a person , it had not yet been generated ; therefore , no one could bring suit on its behalf . The mother could bring suit , she had been ...
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... reason , and reason is applied all the way through . There's a basic rationality : the universe itself is , in a significant sense , rational in structure . It deals , there- fore , with the relation of being to becoming , which is a ...
... reason , and reason is applied all the way through . There's a basic rationality : the universe itself is , in a significant sense , rational in structure . It deals , there- fore , with the relation of being to becoming , which is a ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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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