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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries

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Authors:
  1. Amihud Gilead

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Israel

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  • 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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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. What Are Individual Pure Possibilities and for What Are They Good?

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    Pages 1-9

  3. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 11-25

  4. A Panenmentalist Reconsideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 27-35

  5. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 37-57

  6. Mathematical Possibilities and Their Discovery

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    Pages 59-97

  7. A Panenmenalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings

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    Pages 99-111

  8. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 113-138

  9. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 139-160

  10. Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 161-172

  11. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities

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    Pages 173-184

  12. Quantum Pure Possibilities and Macroscopic Actual Reality

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 185-216

  13. Brain Imaging and the Human Mind

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 217-238

  14. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities

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    Pages 239-248

  15. Stanley Milgram’s Experiments and the Saving of the Possibility of Disobedience

    • Amihud Gilead
    Pages 249-262

  16. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?

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    Pages 263-288

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 289-315
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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

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Israel

    Amihud Gilead

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

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