The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science : From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries Paperback / softback
by Amihud Gilead
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This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds.
The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity.
It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences.
It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities.
It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility.
It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.
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- Pages:315 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 315 p. 2 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:07/03/2021
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- ISBN:9783030411268
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:315 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 315 p. 2 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:07/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030411268
