Epistemology of the Human Sciences : Restoring an Evolutionary Approach to Biology, Economics, Psychology and Philosophy
by Walter B. Weimer
1. Understanding, Explaining and Knowing -- Part 1: Knowledge as classification, judgment, mensuration -- 2. Problems of Mensuration and Experimentation -- 3. Problems of Measurement and Meaning in Biology -- 4. Psychology Cannot Quantify Its Research, do Experiments, or be Based Upon Behaviorism -- 5. Taking the Measure of Functional Things -- 6. Statistics Without Measurement -- 7. Economic Calculation of Value Is Not Measurement, not Apriori, and Its Study Is Not Experimental -- Part 2: What can be known, and what is real -- 8. Structural Realism and Theoretical Reference -- 9. The Mental and the Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems -- Part 3: There are inescapable dualisms -- 10. Complementarity in Science, Life and Knowledge -- 11. Complementarities of physicality and functionality yield unavoidable dualisms -- Part 4: Complementarity and ambiguity -- 12. Understanding Complex Phenomena -- 13. The Resolution of Surface and Deep Structure Ambiguity -- Part 5: The corruption of knowledge: Politics and the deflection of science -- 14. Political Prescription of Behavior Ignores Epistemic Constraints -- Part 6: Appendix: The Abject Failure of Traditional Philosophy to Understand Epistemology -- 15. Induction is an insuperable problem for traditional philosophy -- 16. Rheroric and Logic in Inference and Expectation -- 17. Rationality in an evolutionary epistemology.
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2023
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Authors: | Weimer, Walter B. |
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2023.: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan |
Subject: | evolutionary epistemology | complexity theory | behaviorism | Austrian subjectivism | rationalist constructivism | philosophy of the social sciences | market order in economics | Evolutionsökonomik | Evolutionary economics | Erkenntnistheorie | Epistemology | Wirtschaftsphilosophie | Philosophy of economics | Sozialwissenschaft | Social sciences | Österreichische Schule | Austrian economics | Philosophie | Philosophy |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 410 p. 4 illus.) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 978-3-031-17173-4 ; 978-3-031-17172-7 ; 978-3-031-17174-1 ; 978-3-031-17175-8 |
Other identifiers: | 10.1007/978-3-031-17173-4 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013504641
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