Download or read book Scientific realism and the plastic mind written by Paul M. Churchland and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind written by Paul M. Churchland and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plastic Mind written by Sharon Begley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that the hardware of the brain is fixed - that we are stuck with what we were born with. But recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering its structure but also of generating new neurons, even into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma and compensate for disability. In this groundbreaking book, highly respected science writer Sharon Begley documents how this fundamental paradigm shift is transforming both our understanding of the human mind and our approach to deep-seated emotional, cognitive and behavioural problems. These breakthroughs show that it is possible to reset our happiness meter, regain the use of limbs disabled by stroke, train the mind to break cycles of depression and OCD and reverse age-related changes in the brain.
Download or read book Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind written by Paul M. Churchland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by N. Rescher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the object of the present book, which will recon sider the newer concerns about scientific realism in the context of these older philosophical themes. Historically, realism concerns itself with the real existence of things that do not "meet the eye" - with suprasensible entities that lie beyond the reach of human perception. In medieval times, discussions about realism focused upon universals. Recognizing that there are physical objects such as cats and triangular objects and red tomatoes, the medievels debated whether such "abstract objects" as cathood and triangularity and redness also exist by way of having a reality indepen dent of the concretely real things that exhibit them. Three fundamen tally different positions were defended: (1) Nominalism. Abstracta have no independent existence as such: they only "exist" in and through the objects that exhibit them. Only particulars (individual substances) exist. Abstract "objects" are existents in name only, mere thought fictions by whose means we address concrete particular things. (2) Realism. Abstracta have an independent existence as such.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by Jarrett Leplin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Download or read book Plastic Reason written by Tobias Rees and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processesÑmost spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in the form of new neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapsesÑcontinue in the mature brain. Furthermore, these researchers sought to demonstrate that the new tissues are still unspecific and hence literally plastic, and that this cellular plasticity is constitutive of the possibility of the human. Plastic Reason, grounded in years of fieldwork and historical research, is an anthropologistÕs account of what has arguably been one of the most sweeping events in the history of brain researchÑthe highly contested effort to consider the adult brain in embryogenetic terms. A careful analysis of the disproving of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing.
Download or read book Realism for Realistic People written by Hasok Chang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new pragmatist philosophy of science that conceives truth and reality as operational ideals achievable in actual scientific practice.
Download or read book Understanding Action written by Frederic Schick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By taking account of people's understanding (along with their beliefs and desires) of their situations, options and prospects, this text is able to expand the current theory of decision and action.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by Stathis Psillos and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined written by Thomas Martin Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Scientific Realism written by Andre Kukla and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a superbly clear analysis of the standard arguments for and against scientific realism. In surveying claims on both sides of the debate, Kukla organizes them in ways that expose unnoticed connections. He identifies broad patterns of error, reconciles seemingly incompatible positions, and discovers unoccupied positions with the potential to influence further debate. Kukla's overall assessment is that neither the realists nor the antirealists may claim a decisive victory.
Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism written by Paul Dicken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary scientific realism debate, exploring the extent to which we are justified in believing our scientific theories to be true.
Download or read book Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation written by Roy Bhaskar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory—and thence emancipatory—critique. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism, highlighting a conception of science as explanatory of a structured, differentiated and changing world. Turning to the social domain, the book argues for a view of the social order as conditioned by, and emergent from, nature. Advocating a critical naturalism, the author shows how the transformational model of social activity together with the conception of social science as explanatory critique which it entails, resolves the divisions and dualisms besetting orthodox social and normative theory: between society and the individual, structure and agency, meaning and behavior, mind and body, reason and cause, fact and value, and theory and practice. The book then goes on to discuss the emancipatory implications of social science and sketches the nature of the depth investigation characteristically entailed. In the highly innovative third part of the book Roy Bhaskar completes his critique of positivism by developing a theory of philosophical discourse and ideology, on the basis of the transcendental realism and critical naturalism already developed, showing how positivism functions as a restrictive ideology of and for science and other social practices.
Download or read book Matter and Mind written by Mario Bunge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is mental (idealism), and that the everything real is material (materialism). Most of the thinkers who espouse a materialist view of mind have obsolete ideas about matter, whereas those who claim that science supports idealism have not explained how the universe could have existed before humans emerged. Besides, both groups tend to ignore the other levels of existence—chemical, biological, social, and technological. If such levels and the concomitant emergence processes are ignored, the physicalism/spiritualism dilemma remains unsolved, whereas if they are included, the alleged mysteries are shown to be problems that science is treating successfully.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by Mario Bunge and published by Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
