Science, Mind and Art

Essays on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics In honor of Robert S. Cohen

AvR. S. Cohen,John J. Stachel

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

Del 165 i serien Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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Beskrivning

This volume focuses on issues in contemporary epistemology, aesthetics and philosophy of mind, as well as on the relations of science and human values in ethical and religious thought. It also features new work in contemporary metaphysics, as well as in the history of philosophy, and on questions of multiculturalism in science education. Contributors include Paul Feyerabend, Adolf Grunbaum, Joseph Margolis, Joelle Proust, Erazim Kohak, Elie Wiesel, Miriam Bienenstock and John Silber, among others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-10-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:875 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Antal sidor:462
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9780792329909

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Innehållsförteckning

A. Aesthetics, Art History and the Work of Art.- Art as a Product of Nature as a Work of Art.- Neo-Pragmatism and the New Aesthetic. The Second Death of Philosophy.- The Reader’s Progress: Remarks on Arnold Hauser’s Philosophy of Art History.- Poems from “Green the Witch-Hazel Wood” and “Alluvial”.- B. Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science.- Hegel’s Conception of Teleology.- The Virus of Fatalism.- Wittgenstein Versus Artificial Intelligence?.- Schopenhauer und Helmholtz: Bemerkungen zu einer alten Kontroverse zwischen Philosophic und Naturwissenschaft.- The Meaning of Thomas Kuhn’s “Different Worlds”.- Multicultural Science Education: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science.- Functionalism and Multirealizability: On Interaction Between Structure and Function.- A Closet Realist.- C. Philosophy, Religion and Human Values.- The Poverty of Theistic Morality.- “. . . Knowing Good and Evil . . .”.- Is Judaism Thisworldly? Cosmological Boundaries, Soteriological Bridges, and Social References in Judaism.- A Gloss on Robert S. Cohen’s Ambiguities of Science.- Socrates and Plato: Understanding the World and Changing it.- Science, Religion, and the Quest for Truth: Aristotle and Tillich on the First Principles of Knowledge.- Relational Morality: Which Relations, Which Morals?.- On Bob Cohen.- On the Transvaluation of Values: Nietzsche Contra Foucault.- Rabbi Yehuda the Prince.- D. History, Memory and Reality.- Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide.- Remembering and Reality.- Common Sense and the Rights of Man in America: The Celebration and Damnation of Thomas Paine.- Index of Names.