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Foresight and knowledge

Title
Foresight and knowledge / Yves R. Simon ; edited by Ralph Nelson and Anthony O. Simon.
Author
Simon, Yves R., 1903-1961.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 1996.

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  • Nelson, R. C. (Ralph Carl), 1927-
  • Simon, Anthony O.
Description
xxi, 153 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science: the search for explanation. The philosophy Simon espouses is philosophical realism which, following Jacques Maritain, he prefers to call critical realism. Against the prejudice that only some version of philosophical idealism, be it critical or absolute, is capable of understanding positive science.
  • Simon, in Foresight and Knowledge, develops a philosophy of science from a realistic perspective. Philosophy of science or the critique of science, as it was known in France, is, according to Simon, metaphysics in the exercise of its critical function.
  • . Simon selects as the central focus of the treatise the problem of determinism, causality, and chance. Simon shows that the concept "determinism" must be understood in different conceptual systems, such as a philosophy of nature and physics; in the latter, determinism is conceived as a possibility of certain and exact prediction.
Uniform Title
Prévoir et savoir. English
Alternative Title
Prévoir et savoir.
Subject
  • Free will and determinism
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Science > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-135) and index.
Contents
1. The Theory of Determinism -- 2. Science and Systematic Knowledge -- 3. The Vienna Circle -- 4. Epistemological Pluralism -- 5. Some Remarks on the Object of Physical Knowledge -- 6. Knowledge of the Soul.
ISBN
  • 0823216217
  • 0823216225 (pbk.)
LCCN
95036922
OCLC
ocm33079508
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries