03887nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050000800172072001600180072002300196072001500219082001200234100007700246245016800323250001800491264007500509300004300584336002600627337002600653338003600679347002400715490011200739505100200851520090701853650002802760650002402788650010302812650011602915710003403031773002603065776003603091776003603127776003603163830011203199856004603311912001403357912001503371999001903386978-3-030-41124-4DE-He21320200904105048.0cr nn 008mamaa200306s2020    gw |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830304112449978-3-030-41124-47 a10.1007/978-3-030-41124-42doi 4aB67 7aPDA2bicssc 7aSCI0750002bisacsh 7aPDA2thema04a5012231 aGilead, Amihud.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Panenmentalist Philosophy of Scienceh[electronic resource] :bFrom the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries /cby Amihud Gilead.  a1st ed. 2020. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Springer,c2020.  aXII, 315 p. 2 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,x0166-6991 ;v4240 aAcknowledgments -- 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.  aThis 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. 0aPhilosophy and science. 0aMathematical logic.14aPhilosophy of Science.0https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E3400024aMathematical Logic and Foundations.0https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M240052 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303041123708iPrinted edition:z978303041125108iPrinted edition:z9783030411268 0aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,x0166-6991 ;v42440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c461296d461296