The world observed, the world conceived / Hans Radder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radder, Hans, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. The World Observed/The World Conceived presents an innovative analysis of the nature and role of observation and conceptualization. While these two actions are often treated as separate, Hans Radder shows that they are inherently interconnected-that materially realized observational processes are always conceptually interpreted and that the meaning of concepts depends on the way they structure observational processes and abstract from them. He examines the role of human action and conceptualization in realizing observational processes and develops a detailed theory of the relationship between observation, abstraction, and the meaning of concepts.The World Observed/The World Conceived will prove useful to many areas of scholarly study including ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, science studies, and cognitive science.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. Observation and Conceptual Interpretation

Part 1 / The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes

2. The Absence of Experience in Empiricism

3. The Conceptual Analysis of Observation

4. The Interaction-Information Theory of Observability and Observation

5. Connectionist Accounts of Observation

6. A Hermeneutical Approach to Perception

7. The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes

Part 2 / How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from It

8. How Concepts Structure the World

9. The Extensibility of Concepts to Novel Observational Processes

10. Extensible Concepts, Abstraction, and Nonlocals

11. Wider Philosophical Implications

12. Abstraction, Formalization, and Digitization

13. Aristotelian Abstraction and Scientific Theorizing

14. Abstraction and the Extension of Actor Networks

15. Meaning Finitism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

16. Product Patenting as the Exploitation of Abstract Possibilities

17. Epilogue: Experience, Naturalism, and Critique

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822971061

0822971062

OCLC:

817967080