Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Epistemology & Methodology I:

Exploring the World

  • Book
  • © 1983

Overview

Authors:
  1. Mario Augusto Bunge
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Treatise on Basic Philosophy (TOBP, volume 5)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 1-17

  3. Cognition and Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Cognition

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 21-60

    3. Knowledge

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 61-96

    4. Communication

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 97-125

  4. Perceiving and Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Perceiving

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 129-158

    3. Conceiving

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 159-198

    4. Inferring

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 199-229

  5. Exploring and Theorizing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Exploring

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 233-285

    3. Conjecturing

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 286-322

    4. Systematizing

      • Mario Augusto Bunge
      Pages 323-376

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 383-404
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

In this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning. This must be done because epistemology has been pronounced dead, and methodology nonexisting; and because, when acknowledged at all, they are often misplaced. 1. DESCRIPTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY The following problems are typical of classical epistemology: (i) What can we know? (ii) How do we know? (iii) What, if anything, does the subject contribute to his knowledge? (iv) What is truth? (v) How can we recognize truth? (vi) What is probable knowledge as opposed to certain knowledge? (vii) Is there a priori knowledge, and if so of what? (viii) How are knowledge and action related? (ix) How are knowledge and language related? (x) What is the status of concepts and propositions? In some guise or other all of these problems are still with us. To be sure, if construed as a demand for an inventory of knowledge the first problem is not a philosophical one any more than the question 'What is there?'. But it is a genuine philosophical problem if construed thus: 'What kinds of object are knowable-and which ones are not?' However, it is doubtful that philosophy can offer a correct answer to this problem without the help of science and technology. For example, only these disciplines can tell us whether man can know not only phenomena (appearances) but also noumena (things in themselves or self-existing objects).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Epistemology & Methodology I:

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring the World

  • Authors: Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Series Title: Treatise on Basic Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7027-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1511-1Published: 31 August 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1523-4Published: 31 August 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7027-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 404

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation