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9780367549947 |
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167 |
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VAI |
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Vaihinger, Hans |
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| Title |
The philosophy of 'as if' |
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Routledge |
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New York |
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2021 |
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xIv, 353 p. |
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GBP |
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19.99 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Routledge Classics |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Table of content:<br/>Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Rosenthal<br/><br/>General Introduction<br/><br/>Part 1: Basic Principles<br/><br/>General Introductory Remarks on Fictional Constructs<br/><br/>A. The Enumeration and Division of Scientific Fictions<br/><br/>B. The Logical Theory of Scientific Fictions<br/><br/>C. Contributions to the History and Theory of Fictions<br/><br/>D. Consequences for the Theory of Knowledge<br/><br/>Part 2: Amplified Study of Special Problems<br/><br/>1. Artificial Classification<br/><br/>2. Further Artificial Classifications<br/><br/>3. Adam Smith's Method in Political Economy<br/><br/>4. Bentham's Method in Political Science<br/><br/>5. Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology<br/><br/>6. Condillac's Imaginary Statue<br/><br/>7. Lotze's 'Hypothetical Animal'<br/><br/>8. Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation<br/><br/>9. The Fiction of Force<br/><br/>10. Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories<br/><br/>11. Abstract Concepts as Fictions<br/><br/>12. General Ideas as Fictions<br/><br/>13. Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions<br/><br/>14. Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions<br/><br/>15. Schematic Fictions<br/><br/>16. Illustrative Fictions<br/><br/>17. The Atomic Theory as a Fiction<br/><br/>18. Fictions in Mathematical Physics<br/><br/>19. The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space<br/><br/>20. Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions<br/><br/>21. The Fiction of the Infinitely Small<br/><br/>22. The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction.<br/><br/>23. The Meaning of the' As If' Approach<br/><br/>24. The Fictive Judgment<br/><br/>25. The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis<br/><br/>Part 3: Historical Confirmations<br/><br/>A. Kant’s Use of the ‘As If’ Method<br/><br/>B. Forberg, The Originator of the Fichtean Atheism-Controversy, and his Religion of As-If<br/><br/>C. Lange's 'Standpoint of the Ideal'<br/><br/>D. Nietzsche and his Doctrine of Conscious Illusion.<br/><br/>Index<br/><br/>[https://www.routledge.com/The-Philosophy-of-As-If/Vaihinger/p/book/9780367549947?srsltid=AfmBOooB7RvlcVeQFOFF8rUs1qrzh4cNtNs6S8CXS2AeIgYDrApc63OG] |
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Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical philosophy, as well as hostility towards his work because of his defense of Jewish scholars in a Germany controlled by Nazism.<br/><br/>However, it is widely acknowledged today that The Philosophy of ‘As If’ is a philosophical masterwork. Vaihinger argues that in the face of an overwhelmingly complex world, we produce a simpler set of ideas, or idealizations, that help us negotiate it. When cast as fictions, such ideas provide an easier and more useful way to think about certain subjects, from mathematics and physics to law and morality, than would the truth in all its complexity. Even in science, he wrote, we must proceed "as if " a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behaviour, we must act "as if " ethical certainty were possible; in religion, we must believe "as if" there were a God. He also explores the role of fictions in the history of philosophy, going back to the ancient Greeks and the work of Leibniz, Adam Smith and Bentham.<br/><br/>The Philosophy of ‘As If’ was a powerful influence on the emerging philosophical movement of pragmatism and was groundbreaking in its anticipation of the central role that model-building and simulation would come to play in the human sciences.<br/><br/>(https://www.routledge.com/The-Philosophy-of-As-If/Vaihinger/p/book/9780367549947?srsltid=AfmBOooB7RvlcVeQFOFF8rUs1qrzh4cNtNs6S8CXS2AeIgYDrApc63OG) |
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Philosophy |
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