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1 online resource (193 pages). |
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Philosophy and Religion
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Philosophy and religion.
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Integrated Truth and ExistentialPhenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Foreword; Preface; 1 Existential Phenomenology and Truth in Science; 1.1Dilemmas of Truth that Afflict Realism; 1.2A Weak Realism Despite the Dilemmas?; 1.3A Robust Realism for Mature Theories; 1.4Theory-Dependence Vs. a Consciousness-Rooted Realism; 2 Realism Rooted in Observational Consciousness; 2.1Consciousness and Reality; 2.2Reality of a Paradox to a Paradoxical Consciousness. |
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2.3Existential Phenomenology: An Antidote to Neuroscience Sophistry and Other Substitutes for Philosophy2.4The Recurring Seductions of Self-Refuting Reductionisms; 2.6Anti-Phenomenological Footings of Neuroscience Philosophy; 2.7How Philosophy was Previously Skewed by Aping Science; 2.8Contra Kant: Consciousness of a Thereness Apart from Thought; 2.9Consciousness of Aspects of Phenomena; 2.10Seeing Non-Epistemologically in the Analytic Tradition; 2.11In This Tradition, Seeing Epistemologically; 3 From Cultural Relativism as a Species of Realism to Realism in Science. |
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3.1A Common-Sense Inference of True Theories Versus an Everyday Contextual Relativism3.2Realism as Opposed to a Politically-Correct Cultural Relativism; 3.3Phenomenological and Logical Support of Realism; 3.4Scientific Significance of Aspects of Phenomena; 3.5An Anti-Realist K-K Thesis Surmounted by Common Sense; 3.6A Phenomenological Explanation of Historical Developments; 3.7The Developments Include Free Will and Causal Determinism; 4 Scientific Realism and Problems of Observation; 4.1Theory Vs. Theory-Neutral Observation; 4.2Observation-Theoretical Distinction or Differences in Degree? |
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4.3Theory-Laden Observation and Observational Consciousness4.4Observational Footing is Not a Physics-Friendly Metaphysics; 4.5Metaphysics Vs. Modal Logic and a Phenomenology of Observation; 4.6Observation-Laden Theory: Are Theoretical Entities Observed?; 4.7Observation via Existential Phenomenology is Not a Theory; 5 The Turn from Realism Roused by a Self-Avowed Realist; 5.3The Overlooked Origin of Observation Statements as Falsifiers; 5.4How Falsificationism is Ungrounded by Observation; 5.6From Relativism to Post-Modern Reinventions of Self and Theories. |
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5.7The Relation of Science to Sophists and Super Scientists5.8A Peculiar Case of Missing the Profound Point about Popper; 6 A Return to Scientific Realism; 6.1Commensurability: A Presupposition of Scientific Progress; 6.2Truth Upheld by De Re and De Dicto Impossibilities?; 6.3The Impossibilities are Not Undercut by Meaning Variances; 6.4Verisimilitude: Increasing Truth, Not Truth-likeness; 6.5Problem of Ascribing Truth to Theories as Conjunctive Propositions; 6.6Propositional Logic Vs. What It Makes Sense to Say; 6.7Is it Senseless to Say that Superseded Theories are Still True? |
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6.8Truth is an Attainable Aim of Methodology. |
| Summary |
Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates existential phenomenology to a modal reasoning for establishing a Thomistic integration of objective truths in science, theology, ethics, art and politics. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. |
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Existential phenomenology.
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Existential phenomenology. |
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Existentialism.
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Existentialism. |
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Phenomenology.
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Phenomenology. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Anti-realism.
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Anti-realism. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Trundle, Robert C. Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology : A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004299740 |
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9004299750 |
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9789004299757 (electronic book) |
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9004299742 |
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9789004299740 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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10.1163/9789004299757 |
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