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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... respect to the question we're talking about , there isn't any difference be- tween the falling body , the court of law , or a poem , except , of course , that some people don't treat them properly . What is justice or any other virtue ...
... respect to the question we're talking about , there isn't any difference be- tween the falling body , the court of law , or a poem , except , of course , that some people don't treat them properly . What is justice or any other virtue ...
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... respect to this , What about our particular subject , motion ? And after all , anyone who has been three years to the College at Chicago will realize that Aristotle enslaved men's minds for two thousand years ; then Galileo woke us up ...
... respect to this , What about our particular subject , motion ? And after all , anyone who has been three years to the College at Chicago will realize that Aristotle enslaved men's minds for two thousand years ; then Galileo woke us up ...
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... respect to the characteristics in table 1 , Aristotle has a demonstration that the universe is necessarily finite , whereas Plato's is infinite . And in this demonstration he uses a pair of terms which , if you look at them , you might ...
... respect to the characteristics in table 1 , Aristotle has a demonstration that the universe is necessarily finite , whereas Plato's is infinite . And in this demonstration he uses a pair of terms which , if you look at them , you might ...
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... respect indicated by the equa- tion . Yet the things you apply it to are constantly changing , either in re- spects relative to the equation — and then the thing ceases to be an instance of it — or in respects that don't affect the ...
... respect indicated by the equa- tion . Yet the things you apply it to are constantly changing , either in re- spects relative to the equation — and then the thing ceases to be an instance of it — or in respects that don't affect the ...
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... respect to becoming , the inclusive self- motion : that is the soul . And you have the manifestation of that in the body . The bodily motion , therefore , depends on reason . If we have reason as well as sensation , we can not only see ...
... respect to becoming , the inclusive self- motion : that is the soul . And you have the manifestation of that in the body . The bodily motion , therefore , depends on reason . If we have reason as well as sensation , we can not only see ...
Inhalt
1 | |
12 | |
25 | |
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