The Bet: Truth in Science, Literature and Everyday Knowledges

ISBN-13: 9781138391376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 217 str.

Garry Potter

Opis

First published in 1999, this epistemological volume takes Searle’s ‘simple theory’ and ‘common sense’ realism and builds it from the ground up, applying it to some of the most contentious issues in the philosophy of science.

Spis treści

1. Not So Naïve Realism: Basic Principles of Realism and Materialism. 2. Correspondence (Side 1): Signifier, Signified and Referent. 3. Correspondence (Side 2): Epistemological Levels and Ontological Complexity. 4. Realism versus Conventionalism: Socio-Historical Determinants of Scientific Practises. 5. Hermeneutical Realism. 6. Structure, Consciousness and Change. 7. The Objectivity of Inter-Subjective Meaning and the Ontology of Fictional Realities. 8. The Turning Point. 9. The Literary Canon. 10. Science as a Value and the Value of Science.

O autorze

Garry Potter