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Integrated truth and existential phenomenology : a Thomistic response to iconic anti-realists in science / by Robert C. Trundle ; foreword by Peter A. Redpath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trundle, Robert C., 1943- author.
- Redpath, Peter A., author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Philosophy and religion.
- Value inquiry book series ; Volume 283.
- Value Inquiry Book Series, 0929-8436 ; Volume 283
- Philosophy and Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Existential phenomenology.
- Existentialism.
- Phenomenology.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Anti-realism.
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.
- Summary:
- Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates an existential phenomenology to modal reasoning. By this reasoning, rooted in a consciousness of phenomena in themselves, a Thomistic realism is advanced wherein scientific inquiry yields objective truth and presupposes a causal principle. This principle, as an inferably true modality, strictly implies a first cause. And this cause as a supreme norm, causally created human nature as it ought to be. So with no naturalistic fallacy, a naturalistic ethics is inferred from our psycho-biological nature that also informs art and politics. Politics, as the institutionalization of ethics, is inferable from ethical prescriptions that are as certifiably true as the descriptions of science that inform it.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Existential Phenomenology and Truth in Science
- 2 Realism Rooted in Observational Consciousness
- 3 From Cultural Relativism as a Species of Realism to Realism in Science
- 4 Scientific Realism and Problems of Observation
- 5 The Turn From Realism Roused by a Self-Avowed Realist
- 6 A Return to Scientific Realism
- 7 Scientific Truth Informs Truths of Ethics, Art and Politics
- Bibliography
- Name and Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-29975-0
- OCLC:
- 910310080
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004299757 DOI
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