Yorick's world : science and the knowing subject /
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| Author / Creator: | Caws, Peter |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xvi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1428725 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Physics to the Human Sciences - The Itinerary of an Attitude
- Pt. I. Explanation. 1. Aspects of Hempel's Philosophy of Science. 2. Science and System: On the Unity and Diversity of Scientific Theory. 3. Gosse's Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief. 4. Creationism and Evolution
- Pt. II. Hume's Problem. 5. The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager. 6. The Structure of Discovery. 7. Induction and the Kindness of Nature
- Pt. III. Logic and Causality. 8. Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable. 9. Mach's Principle and the Laws of Logic. 10. A Quantum Theory of Causality. 11. A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle
- Pt. IV. Machines and Practices. 12. Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature. 13. Praxis and Techne. 14. On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis. 15. Individual Praxis in Real Time. 16. Towards a Philosophy of Technology. 17. Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly
- Pt. V. Scientific Knowledge - Its Scope and Limits. 18. Is There (Scientific) Knowledge? Who Knows? 19. The Law of Quantity and Quality, or What Numbers Can and Can't Describe. 20. On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time. 21. On a Circularity in Our Knowledge of the Physically Real. 22. Truth and Presence: Poetic Imagination and Mathematical Physics in Gaston Bachelard
- Pt. VI. Science and Subjectivity. 23. Science, Surrealism, and the Status of the Subject. 24. Subjectivity in the Machine. 25. Rethinking Intentionality. 26. Yorick's World, or the Universe in a Single Skull. 27. A Case for the Human Sciences.
