
The Structure of Appearance
Nelson Goodman(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
3rd Edition
Published on 30. September 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
L, 294 pages
978-90-277-0774-1 (ISBN)
Description
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages of Art. There remains the task of understanding Good man's project as a whole; to see the deep continuities of his thought, as it ranges from logic to epistemology, to science and art; to see it therefore as a complex yet coherent theory of human cognition and practice. What we can only hope to suggest, in this note, is the b. road Significance of Goodman's apparently technical work for philosophers, scientists and humanists. One may say of Nelson Goodman that his bite is worse than his bark. Behind what appears as a cool and methodical analysis of the conditions of the construction of systems, there lurks a radical and disturbing thesis: that the world is, in itself, no more one way than another, nor are we. It depends on the ways in which we take it, and on what we do.
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Series
Edition
Third Edition 1977
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
L, 294 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-0774-1 (9789027707741)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-1184-6
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Content
One/On The Theory Of Systems.- I. Constructional Definition.- II. The General Apparatus.- III. Extralogical Bases.- Two I On Qualities and the Concrete.- IV. Approach to the Problems.- V. The System of the 'Aufbau'.- VI. Foundations of a Realistic System.- VII. Concreta and Qualification.- VIII. Size and Shape.- Three/On Order, Measure, and Time.- IX. The Problem of Order.- X. Topology of Quality.- XI. Of Time and Eternity.- Index to Special Symbols.