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Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception. While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a viable epistemological position, even though some schools of thought hold it in low esteem.

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Preface
Chapter 1. Locke's Realism
Chapter 2. Newton and Boyle and The Problem of "Transdiction"
Chapter 3. "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses"
Chapter 4. Toward a Critical Realism
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Philosophy Science and Sense Perception

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421431697
      978-1421431697
      ISBN-10 1421431696
      Also in:
      Cognition and cognitive psychology Philosophy of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception. While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a viable epistemological position, even though some schools of thought hold it in low esteem.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Chapter 1. Locke's Realism
      Chapter 2. Newton and Boyle and The Problem of "Transdiction"
      Chapter 3. "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses"
      Chapter 4. Toward a Critical Realism
      Appendix
      Bibliography
      Index

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