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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... tell whether Fermat or Descartes is responsible for seven- teenth - century mathematics . Therefore , what you must think of is social cir- cumstances , cultural interrelations ; out of this you can get the scientific knowledge . As a ...
... tell whether Fermat or Descartes is responsible for seven- teenth - century mathematics . Therefore , what you must think of is social cir- cumstances , cultural interrelations ; out of this you can get the scientific knowledge . As a ...
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... tell you the way in which it works on my hypothesis , which takes me a step further ! " So the two hypotheses could both move on . And the peculiarity of this field is not that Einstein was convinced that he could write this general ...
... tell you the way in which it works on my hypothesis , which takes me a step further ! " So the two hypotheses could both move on . And the peculiarity of this field is not that Einstein was convinced that he could write this general ...
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... tell you what they mean as they stand , but you can lead out of the matrix the various problems of philos- ophy that we can deal with . So let me use it to differentiate , by taking in succes- sion each one of the terms as fundamental ...
... tell you what they mean as they stand , but you can lead out of the matrix the various problems of philos- ophy that we can deal with . So let me use it to differentiate , by taking in succes- sion each one of the terms as fundamental ...
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... tell you this in advance -- is divided into three sections , and the selections that you have represent each of the sections . The first section deals with the cosmological question in general : the genera- tion of the universe , the ...
... tell you this in advance -- is divided into three sections , and the selections that you have represent each of the sections . The first section deals with the cosmological question in general : the genera- tion of the universe , the ...
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... tell you what the character of scientific research is . He speaks of it - I translate him a little freely , although it's really based on what he says as " a tragedy of thought and being . ” Now let me quote directly : " The treatises ...
... tell you what the character of scientific research is . He speaks of it - I translate him a little freely , although it's really based on what he says as " a tragedy of thought and being . ” Now let me quote directly : " The treatises ...
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