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Gilead, Amihud.

The panenmentalist philosophy of sciencefrom the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The panenmentalist philosophy of scienceby Amihud Gilead.
Reminder of title:	from the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries /
Author:	Gilead, Amihud.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xii, 315 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	SciencePhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4
ISBN:	9783030411244$q(electronic bk.)

The panenmentalist philosophy of sciencefrom the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries /
Gilead, Amihud.

The panenmentalist philosophy of sciencefrom the recognition of individual pure possibilities to actual discoveries /[electronic resource] :by Amihud Gilead. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xii, 315 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Synthese library ;v.424. - Synthese library ;v.344..

Acknowledgments -- 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.

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.

ISBN: 9783030411244$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179415
Science
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: Q175 / .G55 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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