Overview
- Proposes and illustrates a simple criterion for evaluating any philosophical doctrine: Does it help advance knowledge?
- Clearly written, and avoids the use of obscure technical terms
- Argues for an emergentist and non-reductionist view of materialism, as well as for a non-posivist version of scientism, and a systemic alternative to both individualism and holism. ?
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 295)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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HOW TO NURTURE OR HINDER RESEARCH
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PHILOSOPHICAL GAPS
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evaluating Philosophies
Authors: Mario Bunge
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4408-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4407-3Published: 04 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8087-2Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4408-0Published: 04 July 2012
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 202
Topics: Philosophy of Science