Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, according to Science, "raised a storm of controversy" when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate.
How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How are generalizations that are warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that...
Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, according to Science, "raised a storm of controv...
Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman's previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought.
Many new studies are incorporated in the book, along with material, often now augmented or significantly revised, that he has published during the last decade. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the...
Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman's previous books both the remarkable diversity of his...
"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call naturalized epistemology. The Roots of Reference falls within that domain. Its more specific concern, within that domain, is reference to concrete and abstract objects: what such reference consists in, and how we achieve...
"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvo...
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear- ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in- fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages...
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear- ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in- fluential an...
'Sprachen der Kunst' hat auf dem Gebiet der Kunsttheorie eine revolutionäre Wirkung entfaltet. In diesem inzwischen als Klassiker geltenden Werk untersucht Goodman unter anderem die Konventionalität der Perspektive; er formuliert eine Theorie der Metapher und ermöglicht vor dem Hintergrund seiner Theorie der Notation die Festlegung eines strengen Werkbegriffs. Das Neue in seiner Kunstphilosophie besteht jedoch in der Erkenntnis der bedeutenden Rolle der Exemplifikation; sie ist eine der wichtigsten Weisen, in denen Kunstwerke funktionieren. Das Verfahren der Exemplifikation ist nicht nur...
'Sprachen der Kunst' hat auf dem Gebiet der Kunsttheorie eine revolutionäre Wirkung entfaltet. In diesem inzwischen als Klassiker geltenden Werk unte...
"In welchem Sinn genau gibt es viele Welten? Was unterscheidet echte von unechten Welten? Woraus bestehen sie? Wie werden sie erzeugt? Welche Rolle spielen Symbole bei der Erzeugung? Und wie ist das Erschaffen von Welten auf das Erkennen bezogen?" Diese Fragen untersucht Nelson Goodman in seinem Buch Ways of Worldmaking. Er beginnt seine Untersuchung mit einem expliziten Hinweis auf Cassirer, von dem er die Idee des Erzeugens von Welten mit Symbolen übernimmt: "Cassirer sucht (nach einer Einheit aller Weltversionen) auf dem Wege einer transkulturellen Erforschung der Entwicklung von Mythos,...
"In welchem Sinn genau gibt es viele Welten? Was unterscheidet echte von unechten Welten? Woraus bestehen sie? Wie werden sie erzeugt? Welche Rolle sp...
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear- ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in- fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages...
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear- ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in- fluential an...
Im Kern dieses Klassikers der Wissenschaftstheorie geht es um das Problem der Induktion. Wie kommt es, daß wir uns in manchen Hinsichten auf Verallgemeinerungen aus unserer Erfahrung verlassen, in anderen Hinsichten hingegen nicht? Wie lassen sich Verallgemeinerungen, die uns bestätigt erscheinen, von anderen unterscheiden?
Im Kern dieses Klassikers der Wissenschaftstheorie geht es um das Problem der Induktion. Wie kommt es, daß wir uns in manchen Hinsichten auf Verallge...
