AuthorFeibleman, James K. author
TitleFoundations of Empiricism [electronic resource] / by James K. Feibleman
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1962
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9088-6
Descript 389 p. online resource

SUMMARY

For some centuries now the western world has endeavored to choose between rationalism and empiricism; or, when a choice was found impossible, somehow to reconcile them. But the particular brands of both which were taken for granted in confronting the problem were sUbjective: individual human reasoning stood for rationalism and private sense experience for empiricism. Since Plato it has been known that reasoning and feeling are often in conflict. No wonder that a standard for deciding between them or for harmonizing the two was found difficult to come by. Fortunately, due to the revival of realism, a way out presented itself, and we could now consider rationalism and empiricism on some kind of objective basis. In other words, rationalism is a theory about something outside us, and reasoning involves the utilization of a logic which in no wise depends upon our knowledge of it. Similarly; sense experience reveals the existence of data which can be reached through the senses but which in no way relies upon experience for its existence. Thus both reasoning and sensing bring us fragmentary news about an external world which contains not only logic and value but also the prospects for their reconciliation. The implicit philosophy of nominalism is self-liquidating. Where is the proposition which asserts or takes for granted the sole reality of actual physical particulars to get its reality? The meaning of it as a proposition has no place among the particulars


CONTENT

I. An Introduction to Metaphysics for Empiricists -- One. Categorematics -- II. On the Topics and Definitions of the Categories -- III. Some Typically Selected Categories -- Two. Axiomatics -- IV. On the Theory of Induction -- V. On the Connections Between the Two Worlds -- VI. A Logically Primitive and Empirically Verifiable Ontology -- VII. Propositions and Facts -- Three. Systemics -- VIII. The Domain of Finite Ontology -- IX. The Range of Dyadic Ontology -- Four. Ethics -- X. An Objective, Empirical Ethics -- XI. Ethical Variations on a Theme by Rosmini-Serbati -- XII. The Ethics of Action -- Five. Practics -- XIII. The Rational Unconscious -- XIV. Culture as Applied Ontology -- XV. Toward an Analysis of the Basic Value System -- XVI. The Natural Society -- XVII. Language and Metaphysics -- SIX. Historics -- XVIII. History of Dyadic Ontology -- XIX. Aristotle as Finite Ontologist -- XX. Kant and Metaphysics -- Seven. Epistemics -- XXI. The Range of Sensational Epistemology -- XXII. Knowing About Semipalatinsk -- XXIII. An Ontology of Knowledge


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Science
  3. Metaphysics
  4. Philosophy and science
  5. Philosophy
  6. Metaphysics
  7. Philosophy of Science
  8. Science
  9. general