Chasing Reality deals with the controversies over the reality of the external world. Distinguished philosopher Mario Bunge offers an extended defence of realism, a critique of various forms of contemporary anti-realism, and a sketch of his own version of realism, namely hylorealism. Bunge examines the main varieties of antirealism – Berkeley’s, Hume’s, and Kant’s; positivism, phenomenology, and constructivism – and argues that all of these in fact hinder scientific research.Bunge’s realist contention is that genuine explanations in the sciences appeal to causal laws and mechanisms that are not directly observable, rather than simply to empirical generalisations. Genuine science, in his view, is objective even when it deals with subjective phenomena such as feelings of fear. This work defends a realist view of universals, kinds, possibilities, and dispositions, while rejecting contemporary accounts of these that are couched in terms of modal logic and ‘possible worlds.’
Mario Bunge
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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● Trang 356 ● ISBN 9781442621954 ● Nhà xuất bản University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Được phát hành 2015 ● Có thể tải xuống 3 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 6567310 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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