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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries
Authors: Gilead, Amihud
Offers a panenmentalist explanation for the famous epistemological problem of MolyneuxPresents a wholly new, original perspective on philosophy of science
Is valid for all scientific disciplines and of interest to all scientists
About this book
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.
Table of contents (15 chapters)
What Are Individual Pure Possibilities and for What Are They Good?
Pages 1-9
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How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism
Pages 11-25
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A Panenmentalist Reconsideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles
Pages 27-35
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Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account
Pages 37-57
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Mathematical Possibilities and Their Discovery
Pages 59-97
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A Panenmenalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings
Pages 99-111
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Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries
Pages 113-138
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The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals
Pages 139-160
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Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals
Pages 161-172
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Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities
Pages 173-184
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Quantum Pure Possibilities and Macroscopic Actual Reality
Pages 185-216
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Brain Imaging and the Human Mind
Pages 217-238
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Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities
Pages 239-248
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Stanley Milgram’s Experiments and the Saving of the Possibility of Disobedience
Pages 249-262
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Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?
Pages 263-288
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