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Foresight and Knowledge
Contributor(s): Simon, Yves R. (Author)
ISBN: 0823216225     ISBN-13: 9780823216222
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.05  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science: the search for explanation.
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Criticism
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 95-36922
Lexile Measure: 1430
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.94" W x 8.95" (0.52 lbs) 153 pages
 
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For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science: the search for explanation. The philosophy Simon espouses is philosophical realism which, following Jacques Maritain, he prefers to call critical realism. Against the prejudice that only some version of philosophical idealism, be it critical or absolute, is capable of understanding positive science. Simon, in Foresight and Knowledge, develops a philosophy of science form a realistic perspective. Philosophy of science or the critique of science, as it was known in France, is according to Simon, metahphysics in the exercise of its critical function.

Simon selects as the central focus of the treatise the problem of determinism, causality, and chance. Simon shows that the concept "determinism" must be understood in different conceptual systems, such as a philosophy of nature and physics; in the latter, determinism is conceived as a possibility of certain and exact prediction.


Contributor Bio(s): Simon, Yves R.: - Yves R. Simon is author of several books, including The Definition of Moral Virtue and The Tradition of Natural Law available from Fordham University Press.