Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Methods of Science
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198250851 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book is eminently readable (Rescher knows how to write a good sentence) I recommend this book without hesitation to anyone interested in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology MIND Rescher's latest offering is devoted to some of the most interesting and important issues in philosophy of science. MIND . The Heythrop Journal Nature and Understanding is a valuable book. This is a short book, but it goes very deep. The number and range of topics benefiting from Rescher's wisdom is enormous
It seeks to describe in a clear, accessible manner the metaphysical situation that characterizes the process of inquiry in natural science, aiming to shed light on reality by examining the modus operandi of natural science itself and focusing as much on its findings as on its conceptual and methodological presuppositions. Exploring the central ideas of traditional metaphysics--such as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity--this book analyzes looking at such notions from a scientific point of view. It is the definitive presentation of some of Nicholas Rescher's most fascinating ide
Author of more than eighty works ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.. Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh
Kevin Currie-Knight said The realities of science; Popperian pragmaticism!!. The world is as it appears to be through our senses - Every event has an explanation - That explanation is intelligible - There are absolute realities and it is these that science "gets back of". These are some of the assumptions of science. The question of course is how many of them can really be answered apart from specuation.Nicholas Rescher, in a clea