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100 1 _aGilead, Amihud.
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245 1 4 _aThe Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
_h[electronic resource] :
_bFrom the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries /
_cby Amihud Gilead.
250 _a1st ed. 2020.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2020.
300 _aXII, 315 p. 2 illus.
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490 1 _aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,
_x0166-6991 ;
_v424
505 0 _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.
520 _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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy and science.
650 0 _aMathematical logic.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy of Science.
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