Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences write by Nelson Goodman. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The authors argue against certain philosophical distinctions between art and science; between verbal and nonverbal meaning; and between the affective and the cognitive. The book continues Goodman's argument against one traditional mode of philosophizing which privileges the notions of 'truth' and 'knowledge'. Hence, the book is in a broadly pragmatic tradition. It also deals in detail with such topics as meaning in architecture and the concept of 'variation' in art, and contains a superb critique of some important views in contemporary epistemology. This work will be savored even by those who will not accept all aspects of Goodman and Elgin's approach. Essential for all undergraduate philosophy collections." --Stanley Bates, Choice
Understanding and Conscious Experience
Understanding and Conscious Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding and Conscious Experience write by Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu. This book was released on 2024-09-02. Understanding and Conscious Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science. The past two decades have witnessed growing interest from epistemologists, philosophers of science, philosophers of mind and ethicists in the nature and value of intellectual understanding. This volume features original essays on understanding and the phenomenal experiences that underlie it. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part 1 provides theoretical characterizations of understanding, including Henk de Regt’s defense of a contextual theory of scientific understanding and a debate on whether scientific inference and explanatory power are necessary or central features of understanding. Part 2 explores how conscious experience and understanding are related. The chapters articulate a phenomenal theory of understanding and address themes that are connected to understanding, including awareness, transformative experiences and exemplification. Finally, Part 3 is devoted to domain-specific inquiries about understanding, such as logical proofs, particle physics and moral understanding. Understanding and Conscious Experience will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and phenomenology.
Considered Judgment
Considered Judgment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Considered Judgment write by Catherine Z. Elgin. This book was released on 1999-02-21. Considered Judgment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest, seeking security against epistemic misfortune, while their detractors typically espouse unbridled coherentism or facile relativism. Maintaining that neither stance is tenable, Catherine Elgin devises a via media between the absolute and the arbitrary, reconceiving the nature, goals, and methods of epistemology. In Considered Judgment, she argues for a reconception that takes reflective equilibrium as the standard of rational acceptability. A system of thought is in reflective equilibrium when its components are reasonable in light of one another, and the account they comprise is reasonable in light of our antecedent convictions about the subject it concerns. Many epistemologists now concede that certainty is a chimerical goal. But they continue to accept the traditional conception of epistemology's problematic. Elgin suggests that in abandoning the quest for certainty we gain opportunities for a broader epistemological purview--one that comprehends the arts and does justice to the sciences. She contends that metaphor, fiction, emotion, and exemplification often advance understanding in science as well as in art. The range of epistemology is broader and more variegated than is usually recognized. Tenable systems of thought are neither absolute nor arbitrary. Although they afford no guarantees, they are good in the way of belief.
Ways of Worldmaking
Ways of Worldmaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ways of Worldmaking write by Nelson Goodman. This book was released on 1978-01-01. Ways of Worldmaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for those who work in the arts.
Projecting a Camera
Projecting a Camera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Projecting a Camera write by Edward Branigan. This book was released on 2013-08-21. Projecting a Camera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does a camera move? What does a camera "know"? (And when does it know it?) What is the camera's relation to the subject during long static shots? What happens when the screen is blank? Through a wide-ranging engagement with Wittgenstein and theorists of film, he offers one of the most fully developed understandings of the ways in which the camera operates in film. With its thorough grounding in the philosophy of spectatorship and narrative, Projecting a Camera takes the study of film to a new level. With the care and precision that he brought to Narrative Comprehension and Film, Edward Branigan maps the ways in which we must understand the role of the camera, the meaning of the frame, the role of the spectator, and other key components of film-viewing. By analyzing how we think, discuss, and marvel about the films we see, Projecting a Camera, offers insights rich in implications for our understanding of film and film studies.
