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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783030411268
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-030-41126-8
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 07.03.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Serie: Synthese Library
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 499 g
- Seiten: 315
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt