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Rethinking Knowledge - The Heuristic View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Rethinking Knowledge - The Heuristic View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 4
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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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