Radder, Hans. <br/><br/>
The World Observed/the World Conceived. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (233 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822971061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science-Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q175 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>501