04018nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-030-41124-4 DE-He213 20200904105048.0 cr nn 008mamaa 200306s2020 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783030411244 978-3-030-41124-4 10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4 doi B67 PDA bicssc SCI075000 bisacsh PDA thema 501 23 Gilead, Amihud. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science [electronic resource] : From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries / by Amihud Gilead. 1st ed. 2020. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020. XII, 315 p. 2 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 0166-6991 ; 424 Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism -- 3. A Panenmentalist Consideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles -- 4. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account -- 5. Mathematical Possibilities and their Discovery -- 6. A Panenmentalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings -- 7. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries -- 8. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals -- 9. Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals -- 10. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities -- 11. Quantum Pure Possibility and Macroscopic Physics -- 12. Brain-images and the Human Mind -- 13. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities -- 14. Milgram’s Experience and Saving Possibilities -- 15. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits? -- References -- Index. This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences. Philosophy and science. Mathematical logic. Philosophy of Science. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 Mathematical Logic and Foundations. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M24005 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783030411237 Printed edition: 9783030411251 Printed edition: 9783030411268 Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 0166-6991 ; 424 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 461296 461296