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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
ISBN:	9781406768763
EAN-Code:	9781406768763
Verlag:	Mottelay Press
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Sprache:	English
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SCIENCE VERSUS IDEALISM Science Versus Idealism An Examination of Pure Empiricism and Modern Logic By MAURICE CORNFORTH M. A. To the Memory of David Guest LONDON LAWRENCE WISHART Ack no wledgments I wish to acknowledge with gratitude 1 The help of my wife, Kitty Gornforth, in the writing and revision of all parts of this book 2 The help of Professor J. B. S. Haldanc in the preparation of the second and third sections of Chapter 12. In particular, his very valuable suggestions on questions of theories of time and of the use of alternative languages in science. But, of course, he is not responsible for any errors I have made in carrying out these suggestions. M. C. CORNFORTH. London, January, 1946. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 1 PART ONE MATERIALISM AND EMPIRICISM CHAPTER i. ENGLISH MATERIALISM IN THE lyra CENTURY 1. Materialism and the Scientific Outlook Bacon . 21 2. A Materialist System of Metaphysics Hobbes . 24 3. The Proof that Knowledge derives from Sense-Experience Locke ..... 26 4. What is the Object of Knowledge . . 29 5. A Parting of the Ways . . . . 3 CHAPTER 2. MATERIALISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 1. Social Roots of iyth Century Materialism. Materialism as Vindication of Science . . 34 2. The Conflict of Science and Religion . . 36 3. The Problem of Reconciling Science and Religion 39 CHAPTER 3. FROM MATERIALISM TO PURE EMPIRICISM BERKELEY 1 . Does the External World Exist ... 41 2. Berkeleys Conclusion Religion vindicated, Atheism destroyed ..... 44 3. A Philosophy of Pure Empiricism ... 46 CHAPTER 4. FROM MATERIALISM TO PURE EMPIRICISM HUME 1 . Some Inconsistencies of Berkeley ... 50 2. The Consistency of Hume Atomism and Solipsism 52 3.Humes Philosophy in its bearings on the Problem of Science and Religion . . . . . 58 7 CHAPTER 5, THE AGNOSTICS KANT AND MACH 1. Agnosticism . . ... . . .62 2. The Agnosticism of Kant, and its Criticism from two angles ....... 65 3. From Kant, back to Pure Empiricism Mach . 69 4. The Appeasers and Fifth Column in the Camp of Scientific Thought ..... 72 CHAPTER 6. CRITICISM OF PURE EMPIRICISM 1 . How do we gain our Knowledge . 76 2. Does our Knowledge relate to the Objective Material World 78 3. The Objects of Sense-Perception ... 85 4. Is Pure Empiricism compatible with the results of Science . . . . . - 92 PART TWO LOGICAL ANALYSIS, LOGICAL POSITIVISM CHAPTER 7. LOGICAL ANALYSIS AS A PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD 1 . A Galilean Advance Unassailable and Definitive Truth 98 2. Logic as the Essence of Philosophy ... 99 3. The Meaning of Logical Analysis . . . 101 4. Russell on our Knowledge of the External World 104 5. Logical Analysis as a Method of Unscientific Speculation ...... 107 6. Common Sense gets into Difficulties . .113 7. The Philosophical-Social Tendency of Logical Analysis . . . . . . 115 CHAPTER 8. LOGICAL ATOMISM 1. Logical Form . . . . .118 2. Analysis of the Forms of Propositions . . 120 3. What is a Proposition The Pictorial Theory . 127 4. Logical Atomism a System of Metaphysics . 130 5. Critique of Logical Atomism . . . .132 PAGE CHAPTER 9. THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN 1. Drawing a Limit to Thinking . . . .141 2. Saying and Showing . . . 143 3. The Principle of Verification . . . .144 4. The Meaning of Propositions and the Method of Verification . . . . . 149 5. The Interpretation of Science .... 153 6. Where has Wittgenstein led us . . .156 7. A Philosophy divorced fromLife . . 159 CHAPTER 10. LOGICAL POSITIVISM i 1 . Philosophy as the Logical Syntax of the Language of Science . . . . . . .167 2. Object-questions and Logical-questions. Formal Theories and the Principle of Tolerance . .168 3. The Formal and Material Modes of Speech . 173 4. The Logic of Science . . . .176 5. Physicalism . . . . . . . 179 6. Materialism Methodical and Purified . .181 CHAPTER n. LOGICAL POSITIVISM 2 1. The Analysis of Science . . . . .183 2. Protocol Statements . . . . .186 3. The Physical Language . . . . 191 4...