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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... whole they will provide an introduction to McKeon's philosophic and historical semantics . Previously appearing in only the briefest of sketches , this is the interpretive approach on which , in one form or another , he based his own ...
... whole they will provide an introduction to McKeon's philosophic and historical semantics . Previously appearing in only the briefest of sketches , this is the interpretive approach on which , in one form or another , he based his own ...
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... whole empha- sis is on knowing ; and knowing , therefore , is based on being . Doing and mak- ing have a function only if they are qualities of being . Consequently , we say to Howard , Forget your distinctions . Doing and doing well is ...
... whole empha- sis is on knowing ; and knowing , therefore , is based on being . Doing and mak- ing have a function only if they are qualities of being . Consequently , we say to Howard , Forget your distinctions . Doing and doing well is ...
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... whole is prior and the part is posterior . You go into a topological examination rather than a molar dynamic explanation . Or , finally , your operationalist will insist on having the frame of reference in terms of which you are making ...
... whole is prior and the part is posterior . You go into a topological examination rather than a molar dynamic explanation . Or , finally , your operationalist will insist on having the frame of reference in terms of which you are making ...
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... whole and then breaking it down into parts , so in the second section you begin with the parts and construct the universe out of the parts . But there's a further point that needs emphasis . You notice , reason and necessity are not ...
... whole and then breaking it down into parts , so in the second section you begin with the parts and construct the universe out of the parts . But there's a further point that needs emphasis . You notice , reason and necessity are not ...
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... whole , will be placeable within this extension . There remains only one kind of motion for which we need to give the equiv- alent space — and it's a shame to take this too rapidly , although the lecture time is pushing on . It is an ...
... whole , will be placeable within this extension . There remains only one kind of motion for which we need to give the equiv- alent space — and it's a shame to take this too rapidly , although the lecture time is pushing on . It is an ...
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