The World Observed/The World Conceived

The World Observed/The World Conceived
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780822971061
ISBN-13 : 0822971062
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Book Synopsis The World Observed/The World Conceived by : Hans Radder

Download or read book The World Observed/The World Conceived written by Hans Radder and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. The World Observed/The World Conceived presents an innovative analysis of the nature and role of observation and conceptualization. While these two actions are often treated as separate, Hans Radder shows that they are inherently interconnected-that materially realized observational processes are always conceptually interpreted and that the meaning of concepts depends on the way they structure observational processes and abstract from them. He examines the role of human action and conceptualization in realizing observational processes and develops a detailed theory of the relationship between observation, abstraction, and the meaning of concepts. The World Observed/The World Conceived will prove useful to many areas of scholarly study including ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, science studies, and cognitive science.


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