The Philosophy of As if
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The Philosophy of As if

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The Philosophy of As if

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781136358449
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. PREFACE
  5. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
  6. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  7. INTRO_CHAPTER I. —Thought, considered from the point of view ofa purposive organic Function.
  8. INTRO_CHAPTER II.—Thought as an Art, Logic as Technology.
  9. INTRO_CHAPTER III. —The Difference between the Artifices and Rules of Thought
  10. INTRO_CHAPTER IV. —The Transition to Fictions.
  11. PART I
  12. CHAPTER I.—Artificial Classification
  13. CHAPTER II.—Abstractive (Neglective) Fictions
  14. CHAPTER III.—Schematic, Paradigmatic, Utopian and Type Fictions
  15. CHAPTER IV.— Symbolic (Analogical) Fictions
  16. CHAPTER V.— Juristic Fictions
  17. CHAPTER VI.— Personificatory Fictions
  18. CHAPTER VII.— Summational Fictions
  19. CHAPTER VIII.— Heuristic Fictions
  20. CHAPTER IX.— Practical (Ethical) Fictions
  21. CHAPTER X.— The Fundamental Fictional Concepts of Mathematics
  22. CHAPTER XI.— The Method of Abstract Generalization
  23. CHAPTER XII.— The Method of Unjustified Transference
  24. CHAPTER XIII.— The Concept of Infinity
  25. CHAPTER XIV.— Matter and the Sensory World of Ideas
  26. CHAPTER XV.— The Atom as a Fiction
  27. CHAPTER XVI.— Fictions in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics
  28. CHAPTER XVII.— Things–in–themselves
  29. CHAPTER XVIII. —THE ABSOLUTE
  30. CHAPTER XIX. —Introductory Remarks on the Position of Fictions and Semi–fictions in the Logical System as a Whole
  31. CHAPTER XX.— The Separation of Scientific from other Fictions, particularly from the AEsthetic
  32. CHAPTER XXI.— The Difference between Fiction and Hypothesis
  33. CHAPTER XXII.— The Linguistic Form of the Fiction. Analysis of “As–if”
  34. CHAPTER XXIII.— Collection of Expressions for ‘Fiction’
  35. CHAPTER XXIV.— The Main Characteristics of Fictions
  36. CHAPTER XXV.— Outline of a General Theory of Fictional Constructs
  37. CHAPTER XXVI.— The Method of Correcting Arbitrary Differences or the Method of Antithetic Error
  38. CHAPTER XXVII.— The Law of Ideational Shifts
  39. CHAPTER XXVIII.—The Theory and Practice of Fictions
  40. CHAPTER XIX.— Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Greeks
  41. CHAPTER XXX.— The Use of the Fiction among the Romans
  42. CHAPTER XXXI.— Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Romans
  43. CHAPTER XXXII.— Medieval Terminology
  44. CHAPTER XXXIII.— The Use of Fictions in Modern Times
  45. CHAPTER XXXIV. —The Theory of Fictions in Modern Times
  46. CHAPTER XXXV. —The Basic Problem of the Theory of Know– ledge
  47. CHAPTER XXXVI.—The Falsification of Reality by the Logical Functions (Logical Optimism, Pessimism and Criticism)
  48. CHAPTER XXXVII.—Categories as Fictions (with a General Discussion of the Practical Purpose of Thought)
  49. CHAPTER XXXVIII. —Categories as Analogical Fictions
  50. CHAPTER XXXIX.—The Practical Utility of the Fiction of Categories
  51. § 1—Artificial Classification
  52. § 2—Further Artificial Classifications
  53. § 3—Adam Smith’s Method in Political Economy .
  54. § 4—Bentham’s Method in Political Science
  55. § 5—Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology
  56. § 6—Condillac’s Imaginary Statue
  57. § 7—Lotze’s ‘ Hypothetical Animal ‘.
  58. § 8—Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation
  59. § 9—The Fiction of Force
  60. § 10—Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories
  61. § 11—Abstract Concepts as Fictions
  62. § 12—General Ideas as Fictions
  63. § 13—Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions
  64. § 14—Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions
  65. § 15—Schematic Fictions
  66. § 16—Illustrative Fictions
  67. § 17—The Atomic Theory as a Fiction .
  68. § 18—Fictions in Mathematical Physics .
  69. § 19—The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space
  70. § 20—Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions
  71. § 21—The Fiction of the Infinitely Small
  72. § 22—The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction .
  73. § 23—The Meaning of the ‘As If’ Approach
  74. § 24—The Fictive Judgment.
  75. § 25—The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis .
  76. I.—The Fundamental Elements in the principal Critical Works of Kant
  77. II.—Discussion of Principles in Kant’s Chief Works on Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion
  78. III.—Confirmations and Applications in the Other Works of the Critical Period (especially of 1790).
  79. IV.—Kant’s Posthumous Papers
  80. B.—FORBERG, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE FICHTEAN ATHEI8M–CONTROVERSY, AND HIS RELIGION OF AS–IF
  81. C.—LANGE’S “STANDPOINT OF THE IDEAL”.
  82. D.—NIETZSCHE AND HIS DOCTRINE OF CONSCIOUS ILLUSION(The Will to Illusion)
  83. Subject
  84. Index