The world observed, the world conceived / Hans Radder.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radder, Hans
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Observation and Conceptual Interpretation Part 1: The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes
  • The Absence of Experience in Empiricism
  • The Conceptual Analysis of Observation
  • The Interaction-Information Theory of Observability and Observation
  • Connectionist Accounts of Observation
  • A Hermeneutical Approach to Perception
  • The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes
  • How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from It
  • How Concepts Structure the World
  • The Extensibility of Concepts to Novel Observational Processes
  • Extensible Concepts, Abstraction, and Nonlocals
  • Wider Philosophical Implications
  • Abstraction, Formalization, and Digitization
  • Aristotelian Abstraction and Scientific Theorizing
  • Abstraction and the Extension of Actor Networks
  • Meaning Finitism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
  • Product Patenting as the Exploitation of Abstract Possibilities
  • Naturalism, Antinaturalism, and Critique.