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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science: From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries

The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science: From the Recognition of Individual Pure Possibilities to Actual Discoveries

Paperback

Series: Synthese Library, Book 424

FictionHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 3030411265
ISBN13: 9783030411268
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 7 2021
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress, discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities, mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the sciences.

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