Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	14. 03. 2023
Seiten	:	358
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
ISBN	:	9783031171727
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	X, 358 p. 4 illus.

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Autorinformation

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Walter B. Weimer is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His other books in the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series are the two volumes of Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Understanding, Explaining and Knowing.- Part 1: Knowledge as classification, judgment, mensuration.- 2. Problems of Mensuration and Experimentation.- 3. Problems of Measurement and Meaning in Biology.- 4. Psychology Cannot Quantify Its Research, do Experiments, or be Based Upon Behaviorism.- 5. Taking the Measure of Functional Things.- 6. Statistics Without Measurement.- 7. Economic Calculation of Value Is Not Measurement, not Apriori, and Its Study Is Not Experimental.- Part 2: What can be known, and what is real.- 8. Structural Realism and Theoretical Reference.- 9. The Mental and the Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems.- Part 3: There are inescapable dualisms.- 10. Complementarity in Science, Life and Knowledge.- 11. Complementarities of physicality and functionality yield unavoidable dualisms.- Part 4: Complementarity and ambiguity.- 12. Understanding Complex Phenomena.- 13. The Resolution of Surface and Deep Structure Ambiguity.- Part 5: The corruption of knowledge: Politics and the deflection of science.- 14. Political Prescription of Behavior Ignores Epistemic Constraints.- Part 6: Appendix: The Abject Failure of Traditional Philosophy to Understand Epistemology.- 15. Induction is an insuperable problem for traditional philosophy.- 16. Rheroric and Logic in Inference and Expectation.- 17. Rationality in an evolutionary epistemology.

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