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McFee, Graham.

Philosophy and the 'dazzling ideal' of science

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Philosophy and the 'dazzling ideal' of scienceby Graham McFee.
Author:	McFee, Graham.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xvii, 338 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Philosophy and science.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21675-7
ISBN:	9783030216757$q(electronic bk.)

Philosophy and the 'dazzling ideal' of science
McFee, Graham.

Philosophy and the 'dazzling ideal' of science[electronic resource] /by Graham McFee. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xvii, 338 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy's possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the "dazzling ideal" of science. This 'dazzling ideal' incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation-whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained-and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a scientistic world-view, what need is there for philosophy? In his defense of philosophy (and its truth-claims), McFee shows that rejecting such scientism is not automatically anti-scientific, and that it permits granting to natural science (properly understood) its own truth-generating power. Further, McFee argues for contextualism in the project of philosophy, and sets aside the pervasive (and pernicious) requirement for exceptionless generalizations while relating his account to interconnections between the concepts of person, substance, agency, and causation.

ISBN: 9783030216757$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-21675-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179603
Philosophy and science.

LC Class. No.: B67 / .M34 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 100

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