The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Springer International Publishing | e druk, 2020
ISBN13: 9783030411237
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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.

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ISBN13:9783030411237
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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Acknowledgments<div><div>1. Introduction<div>2. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism</div><div>3. A Panenmentalist Consideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles</div><div>4. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account</div><div>5. Mathematical Possibilities and their Discovery</div>6. A Panenmentalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings</div><div>7. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries</div><div>8. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals</div><div>9. Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals</div><div>10. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities</div><div>11. Quantum Pure Possibility and Macroscopic Physics</div><div>12. Brain-images and the Human Mind</div><div>13. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities</div><div>14. Milgram’s Experience and Saving Possibilities</div><div>15. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?</div><div><div>References</div><div>Index</div></div></div>

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