
World Hypotheses
A Study in Evidence
Stephen C. Pepper(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1972
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-0-520-00994-3 (ISBN)
Description
"World hypotheses" correspond to metaphysical systems, and they may be systematically judged by the canons of evidence and corroboration. In setting forth his root-metaphor theory and examining six such hypotheses - animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism - Pepper surveys the whole field of metaphysics. Because this book is an analytical study, it stresses issues rather than men. It seeks to exhibit the sources of these issues and to show that some are unnecessary; that the rest gather into clusters and are interconnected in systems corresponding closely to the traditional schools of philosophy.The virtue of the root-metaphor method is that it puts metaphysics on a purely factual basis and pushes philosophical issues back to the interpretation of evidence. This book was written primarily as a contribution to the field, but its plan excellently suits it for use as a text in courses in metaphysics, types of philosophical theory, or present tendencies in philosophy.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-00994-3 (9780520009943)
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Person
Stephen C. Pepper, well known for this and his many other contributions to the field of philosophy, was at the time of his death Mills Professor Emeritus of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Content
PART ONE: THE ROOT-METAPHOR THEORY I. The Utter Skeptic II. Dogmatists III. Evidence and Corroboration IV. Hypotheses V. Root Metaphors VI. Examples of Inadequacies in World Hypotheses PART TWO: THE RELATIVELY ADEQUATE HYPOTHESES VII. A General View of the Hypotheses VIII. Formism IX. Mechanism X. Contextualism XI. Organicism PART THREE: SUMMARY, CRITICISMS, AND ANSWERS XII. Review and Conclusions