The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

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From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries, Synthese Library 424

ISBN: 3030411265
ISBN 13: 9783030411268
Autor: Gilead, Amihud
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 315 S., 2 s/w Illustr., 315 p. 2 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.03.2021
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

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.

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Autorenporträt

Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy. From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.

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