Scientific realism and the plastic mind
Author : Paul M. Churchland
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File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Paul M. Churchland
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Release : 1979
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Author : Paul M. Churchland
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Page : 157 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
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Author : Sharon Begley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1472103564
For decades, the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that the hardware of the brain is fixed - that we are stuck with what we were born with. But recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering its structure but also of generating new neurons, even into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma and compensate for disability. In this groundbreaking book, highly respected science writer Sharon Begley documents how this fundamental paradigm shift is transforming both our understanding of the human mind and our approach to deep-seated emotional, cognitive and behavioural problems. These breakthroughs show that it is possible to reset our happiness meter, regain the use of limbs disabled by stroke, train the mind to break cycles of depression and OCD and reverse age-related changes in the brain.
Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521338271
A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.
Author : N. Rescher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400939051
The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the object of the present book, which will recon sider the newer concerns about scientific realism in the context of these older philosophical themes. Historically, realism concerns itself with the real existence of things that do not "meet the eye" - with suprasensible entities that lie beyond the reach of human perception. In medieval times, discussions about realism focused upon universals. Recognizing that there are physical objects such as cats and triangular objects and red tomatoes, the medievels debated whether such "abstract objects" as cathood and triangularity and redness also exist by way of having a reality indepen dent of the concretely real things that exhibit them. Three fundamen tally different positions were defended: (1) Nominalism. Abstracta have no independent existence as such: they only "exist" in and through the objects that exhibit them. Only particulars (individual substances) exist. Abstract "objects" are existents in name only, mere thought fictions by whose means we address concrete particular things. (2) Realism. Abstracta have an independent existence as such.
Author : Jarrett Leplin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520337441
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Tobias Rees
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520288122
Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processesÑmost spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in the form of new neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapsesÑcontinue in the mature brain. Furthermore, these researchers sought to demonstrate that the new tissues are still unspecific and hence literally plastic, and that this cellular plasticity is constitutive of the possibility of the human. Plastic Reason, grounded in years of fieldwork and historical research, is an anthropologistÕs account of what has arguably been one of the most sweeping events in the history of brain researchÑthe highly contested effort to consider the adult brain in embryogenetic terms. A careful analysis of the disproving of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing.
Author : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198745583
What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.
Author : Frederic Schick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521408868
By taking account of people's understanding (along with their beliefs and desires) of their situations, options and prospects, this text is able to expand the current theory of decision and action.
Author : Hasok Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108470386
A new pragmatist philosophy of science that conceives truth and reality as operational ideals achievable in actual scientific practice.