Overview
- Offers a panenmentalist explanation for the famous epistemological problem of Molyneux
- Presents a wholly new, original perspective on philosophy of science
- Is valid for all scientific disciplines and of interest to all scientists
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 424)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy. From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
Book Subtitle: From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries
Authors: Amihud Gilead
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41123-7Published: 07 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41126-8Published: 07 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41124-4Published: 06 March 2020
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Mathematical Logic and Foundations