Reconceptions In Philosophy

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Politics & Social Sciences

GOODMAN, Nelson

Elgin, Catherine Z.

Philosophy

Routledge

Fact, Fiction and Forecast.

Harvard Univ. Press

Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic—a book that, according to Science, "raised a storm of controversy" when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate. 
 How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How ore generalizations that ore warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that neither scientific induction nor ordinary learning can proceed without an a priori, or innate, ordering of hypotheses. 
 In his new foreword to this edition, Hilary Putnam forcefully rejects these nativist claims. The controversy surrounding these unsolved problems is as relevant to the psychology of cognitive development as it is to the philosophy of science. No serious student of either discipline can afford to misunderstand Goodman's classic argument.

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition

Putnam, Hilary

Harvard University Press

Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman’s provocative philosophical classic―a book that, according to Science, “raised a storm of controversy” when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate.
How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How are generalizations that are warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that neither scientific induction nor ordinary learning can proceed without an a priori, or innate, ordering of hypotheses.
In his new foreword to this edition, Hilary Putnam forcefully rejects these nativist claims. The controversy surrounding these unsolved problems is as relevant to the psychology of cognitive development as it is to the philosophy of science. No serious student of either discipline can afford to misunderstand Goodman’s classic argument.

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast: Fourth Edition

Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman's previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought.  Many new studies are incorporated in the book, along with material, often now augmented or significantly revised, that he has published during the last decade. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years.  Goodman transcends the narrow “scientism and humanism that set the sciences and the arts in opposition”; his insights derive from both formal philosophy and cognitive psychology. As Hilary Putnam has noted, Goodman “prefers concrete and partial progress to grand and ultimately empty visions”; and here are illuminating studies of topics ranging from science policy and museum administration and art education to narrative in literature and painting and the analysis of elusive aspects of literal and metaphorical reference. All these are ramifications of Goodman’s profound and often revolutionary philosophical work on the ways we understand and even make the worlds we live in.

Of Mind and Other Matters

Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman's previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought. Many new studies are incorporated in the book, along with material, often now augmented or significantly revised, that he has published during the last decade. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years. Goodman transcends the narrow "scientism and humanism that set the sciences and the arts in opposition"; his insights derive from both formal philosophy and cognitive psychology. As Hilary Putnam has noted, Goodman "prefers concrete and partial progress to grand and ultimately empty visions"; and here are illuminating studies of topics ranging from science policy and museum administration and art education to narrative in literature and painting and the analysis of elusive aspects of literal and metaphorical reference. All these are ramifications of Goodman's profound and often revolutionary philosophical work on the ways we understand and even make the worlds we live in.

Required reading at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout North America.

Ways of worldmaking (Harvester studies in philosophy)

Harvester Press

"The authors argue against certain philosophical distinctions between art and science; between verbal and nonverbal meaning; and between the affective and the cognitive. The book continues Goodman's argument against one traditional mode of philosophizing which privileges the notions of 'truth' and 'knowledge'. Hence, the book is in a broadly pragmatic tradition. It also deals in detail with such topics as meaning in architecture and the concept of 'variation' in art, and contains a superb critique of some important views in contemporary epistemology. This work will be savored even by those who will not accept all aspects of Goodman and Elgin's approach. Essential for all undergraduate philosophy collections." --Stanley Bates, Choice

Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (Hackett Readings in Philosophy)

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

This book takes further strides in an impressive course of thought that has already brought notable reconceptions in and beyond philosophy. In The Structure of Appearance, recognition of the relativity left open by legitimate criteria of constructional definition altered the nature of philosophical inquiry. In Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, questions concerning induction were wholly recast. In Languages of Art, the subject matter of aesthetics was transformed. In that book and With Reference to Reference, a novel, sensitive, and powerful theory of symbols clarified relationships among the arts, the sciences, and philosophy. And in Ways of Worldmaking, construction replaced discovery as the main business of scientific and philosophical inquiry. After briefly surveying this course of thought, Reconceptions carries it far forward with brilliant new studies of representation, interpretation, variation, and other topics in the theory of architecture, painting, music, psychology. These studies not only illustrate how the general theoretical approach and apparatus can interrelate and illuminate diverse fields, they also serve as tests that sometimes call for such improvements in the general theory as the invention of a new concept of ‘contrastive exemplification’.

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Reconceptions In Philosophy

Reconceptions In Philosophy

Fact, Fiction and Forecast.

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast: Fourth Edition

Of Mind and Other Matters

Of Mind and Other Matters

Ways of worldmaking (Harvester studies in philosophy)

Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (Hackett Readings in Philosophy)

Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (Hackett Readings in Philosophy)