Nature: Its Conceptual Architecture
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Nature: Its Conceptual Architecture

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Nature: Its Conceptual Architecture

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Many philosophers adopt methods that emulate those of the natural sciences. They call such an overall approach naturalism, and consider it indispensable for fruitful philosophical debate in various areas. In spite of this consensus however, little is ever said about how naturalism depends on the underlying idea of nature, which we often endorse unconsciously. If we can determine how naturalism reflects an underlying account of nature, we would be in a better position to distinguish between different kinds of naturalism and to assess the merits of each. This book undertakes a sustained study of the concept of nature to answer this need. It examines in detail how conceptual, historical, and scientific constraints affect the concept of nature in various domains of philosophy, and how, in the opposite sense, these constraints are themselves affected by the concept of nature. In so doing, this book relates the conceptual framework of scientific inquiry back to the lived experience that is proper to everyday self-understanding.

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2014
ISBN
9783035107623
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 - Nature: a short history
  6. Chapter 2 - Explaining Nature
  7. Chapter 3 - Causes
  8. Chapter 4 - The Limits of Causation
  9. Chapter 5 - Nature and ordinary language
  10. Chapter 6 - Nature and meaning
  11. Chapter 7 - Levels in Nature
  12. Chapter 8 - Nature, evolution and mind
  13. Chapter 9 - Nature, value, and morality
  14. Chapter 10 - Nature and Concepts
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index