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Rethinking Knowledge : the Heuristic View / by Carlo Cellucci.

Cellucci, Carlo, author.
2017
BD143-237
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Title
Rethinking Knowledge : the Heuristic View / by Carlo Cellucci.
Author
Cellucci, Carlo, author.
ISBN
9783319532370
3319532375
9783319532363
3319532367
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53237-0
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 427 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-53237-0 doi
Call Number
BD143-237
Dewey Decimal Classification
100
Summary
This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what kind of philosophy can be such. The author argues that from its very beginning philosophy has focused on knowledge and methods for acquiring knowledge. This view, however, has generally been abandoned in the last century with the belief that, unlike the sciences, philosophy makes no observations or experiments and requires only thought. Thus, in order for philosophy to once again be relevant, it needs to return to its roots and focus on knowledge as well as methods for acquiring knowledge. Accordingly, this book deals with several questions about knowledge that are essential to this view of philosophy, including mathematical knowledge. Coverage examines such issues as the nature of knowledge; plausibility and common sense; knowledge as problem solving; modeling scientific knowledge; mathematical objects, definitions, diagrams; mathematics and reality; and more. This monograph presents a new approach to philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with interests in the role of knowledge, the analytic method, models of science, and mathematics and reality.
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European Studies in Philosophy of Science ; 4.
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1. Introduction
2. The Heuristic View
3. The Foundationalist View
4. The Limits of Skepticism
5. Philosophy and the Humanistic Disciplines
6. The Nature of Knowledge
7. Knowledge to Reality
8. Knowledge and Truth
9. Knowledge, Plausibly, and Common Sense
10. Other Questions About Knowledge
11. A Discourse on Method
12. The Method of Knowledge
13. Knowledge as Problem Solving
14. Modeling Scientific Knowledge
15. Perceptual Knowledge
16. Knowledge and Error
17. Knowledge and Mind
18. The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge
19. Mathematical Objects, Definitions, Diagrams
20. Mathematics: Problem Solving or Theorem Proving?
21. Two Notions of Mathematical Demonstration
22. Mathematical Explanations
23. Mathematical Beauty
24. Mathematics and Reality
25. Conclusion.

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