Description: Further DetailsTitle: Foresight and KnowledgeCondition: NewISBN-10: 0823216225EAN: 9780823216222ISBN: 9780823216222Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/1999Description: For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science: the search for explanation. The philosophy Simon espouses is philosophical realism which, following Jacques Maritain, he prefers to call critical realism. Against the prejudice that only some version of philosophical idealism, be it critical or absolute, is capable of understanding positive science. Simon, in Foresight and Knowledge, develops a philosophy of science form a realistic perspective. Philosophy of science or the critique of science, as it was known in France, is according to Simon, metahphysics in the exercise of its critical function. Simon selects as the central focus of the treatise the problem of determinism, causality, and chance. Simon shows that the concept “determinism” must be understood in different conceptual systems, such as a philosophy of nature and physics; in the latter, determinism is conceived as a possibility of certain and exact prediction.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 222mmItem Length: 146mmAuthor: Yves R. SimonGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Foresight and Knowledge
Title: Foresight and Knowledge
ISBN-10: 0823216225
EAN: 9780823216222
ISBN: 9780823216222
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 153 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Foresight and Knowledge
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Epistemology, Free Will & Determinism, Religious, Criticism, Agnosticism
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.7 in
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Science
Author: Yves R. Simon
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback