Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. Realism. Science -- Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of. Realism. Science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11179112

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9789812795571 981279557X 9789812380241 9812380248
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and indexes. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

1. "Grasping" as interpretation and impregnation
2. Methodological outline of the systematic scheme-interpretationism
3. Short note about "grasping" in traditional philosophy
4. "Truth" as a metatheoretic interpretative construct
5. A reappraisal regarding "theories" and "theoretical concepts": towards an action-theoretical and technology-oriented philosophy of science and epistemology
6. Reality constructs and different "realisms"
7. From a Kantian towards a problematistic-interpretationist approach
8. Referential realism as an interactionist interpretationism
9. Interpretation of reality and quantum theory
10. Resumé: "grasping" as acting in (re)cognizing.

Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology /

Similar Items