This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences.
Carlo Cellucci is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His recent publications include the book Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method, Springer 2013, and the papers “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Philosophy of Mathematics”, “Philosophy of Mathematics: Making a Fresh Start”, “Why Should the Logic of Discovery be Revived”, “Does Logic Slowly Pass Away, or Has It a Future?”, “Rethinking Knowledge”, “Is There a Scientific Method? The Analytic Model of Science”, “Theory Building as Problem Solving”.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. The Heuristic View.- 3. The Foundationalist View.- 4. The Limits of Skepticism.- 5. Philosophy and the Humanistic Disciplines.- 6. The Nature of Knowledge.- 7. Knowledge to Reality.- 8. Knowledge and Truth.- 9. Knowledge, Plausibly, and Common Sense.- 10. Other Questions About Knowledge.- 11. A Discourse on Method.- 12. The Method of Knowledge.- 13. Knowledge as Problem Solving.- 14. Modeling Scientific Knowledge.- 15. Perceptual Knowledge.- 16. Knowledge and Error.- 17. Knowledge and Mind.- 18. The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge.- 19. Mathematical Objects, Definitions, Diagrams.- 20. Mathematics: Problem Solving or Theorem Proving?.- 21. Two Notions of Mathematical Demonstration.- 22. Mathematical Explanations.- 23. Mathematical Beauty.- 24. Mathematics and Reality.- 25. Conclusion.