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The World Observed/the World Conceived.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822971061
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The World Observed/the World ConceivedDDC classification:
  • 501
LOC classification:
  • Q175
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Observation and Conceptual Interpretation -- Part 1 / The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes -- 2. The Absence of Experience in Empiricism -- 3. The Conceptual Analysis of Observation -- 4. The Interaction-Information Theory of Observability and Observation -- 5. Connectionist Accounts of Observation -- 6. A Hermeneutical Approach to Perception -- 7. The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes -- Part 2 / How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from It -- 8. How Concepts Structure the World -- 9. The Extensibility of Concepts to Novel Observational Processes -- 10. Extensible Concepts, Abstraction, and Nonlocals -- 11. Wider Philosophical Implications -- 12. Abstraction, Formalization, and Digitization -- 13. Aristotelian Abstraction and Scientific Theorizing -- 14. Abstraction and the Extension of Actor Networks -- 15. Meaning Finitism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- 16. Product Patenting as the Exploitation of Abstract Possibilities -- 17. Epilogue: Experience, Naturalism, and Critique -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Provides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Observation and Conceptual Interpretation -- Part 1 / The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes -- 2. The Absence of Experience in Empiricism -- 3. The Conceptual Analysis of Observation -- 4. The Interaction-Information Theory of Observability and Observation -- 5. Connectionist Accounts of Observation -- 6. A Hermeneutical Approach to Perception -- 7. The Material Realization and Conceptual Interpretation of Observational Processes -- Part 2 / How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from It -- 8. How Concepts Structure the World -- 9. The Extensibility of Concepts to Novel Observational Processes -- 10. Extensible Concepts, Abstraction, and Nonlocals -- 11. Wider Philosophical Implications -- 12. Abstraction, Formalization, and Digitization -- 13. Aristotelian Abstraction and Scientific Theorizing -- 14. Abstraction and the Extension of Actor Networks -- 15. Meaning Finitism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- 16. Product Patenting as the Exploitation of Abstract Possibilities -- 17. Epilogue: Experience, Naturalism, and Critique -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Provides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place.

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