Search for a naturalistic world view: Vol II, natural science and metaphysics

By:

Shimony, Abner

Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Cambridge:Description: viii, 340p.: pbk; 23cmISBN:

9780521377454

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

501 SHI

Summary: Abner Shimony an eminent philosopher of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy and physics communities. This two-volume collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Shimony regards the knowing subject as an entity in nature whose faculties must be studied from the points of view of evolutionary biology and empirical psychology. He maintains that the twentieth century is one of the great ages of metaphysics, given the deep implications of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and molecular biology. The first volume, Scientific Method and Epistemology, deals with the dialectic of subject and object, epistemic probability, induction and scientific theories, perception and conception, and fact and values. The focus of the second volume, Natural Sciences and Metaphysics, is on quantum mechanical measurement and non-locality, parts and wholes, time, and mind and matter. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/search-for-a-naturalistic-world-view/840D99A77EC16F2EFCA22D72B3D2B997#fndtn-information

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	501 SHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	Vol. 2		032832

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Abner Shimony an eminent philosopher of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy and physics communities. This two-volume collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Shimony regards the knowing subject as an entity in nature whose faculties must be studied from the points of view of evolutionary biology and empirical psychology. He maintains that the twentieth century is one of the great ages of metaphysics, given the deep implications of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and molecular biology. The first volume, Scientific Method and Epistemology, deals with the dialectic of subject and object, epistemic probability, induction and scientific theories, perception and conception, and fact and values. The focus of the second volume, Natural Sciences and Metaphysics, is on quantum mechanical measurement and non-locality, parts and wholes, time, and mind and matter.

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