Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology /

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Author / Creator:Lenk, Hans.
Imprint:River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Series on the foundations of natural science and technology ; v. 5
Series on the foundations of natural science and technology ; v. 5.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11179112
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ISBN:9789812795571
981279557X
9789812380241
9812380248
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and indexes.
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Summary:Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point. The three main theses are: (1) Any "grasping" of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs - in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependent realism is sketched out and defended from a methodological, non-foundational, epistemological point of view called pragmatic realism; (3) the most provocative thesis is generalized from the role of the well-known preparationist interpretation of quantum theory to everyday knowledge - the interpretative structuring and preparing of the experimental make-up as known in quantum mechanics is not just a special case but the rather general case of gaining any knowledge in science and everyday recognition. An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.
Other form:Print version: Lenk, Hans. Grasping reality. River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003 9812380248 9789812380241
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Summary:Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.The three main theses are: (1) Any "grasping" of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs -- in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependent realism is sketched out and defended from a methodological, non-foundational, epistemological point of view called pragmatic realism; (3) the most provocative thesis is generalized from the role of the well-known preparationist interpretation of quantum theory to everyday knowledge -- the interpretative structuring and preparing of the experimental make-up as known in quantum mechanics is not just a special case but the rather general case of gaining any knowledge in science and everyday recognition.An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and indexes.
ISBN:9789812795571
981279557X
9789812380241
9812380248