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Foresight and Knowledge (Paperback)
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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 form a realistic
perspective. Philosophy of science or the critique of science, as
it was known in France, is according to Simon, metahphysics 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.
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