Problems in Historical Epistemology von Jerzy Kmita | ISBN 9789401071369

Problems in Historical Epistemology

von Jerzy Kmita, übersetzt von Michael Turner
Buchcover Problems in Historical Epistemology | Jerzy Kmita | EAN 9789401071369 | ISBN 94-010-7136-5 | ISBN 978-94-010-7136-9

Problems in Historical Epistemology

von Jerzy Kmita, übersetzt von Michael Turner

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1 / Epistemological Cognition as Historical Cognition.
  • 1.1. Factographical Versus Theoretical Historicism.
  • 1.2. Framework Regularities.
  • 1.3. Assumptions of Historical Epistemology.
  • 1.4. The Relation Born by General Statements of Historical Epistemology on Methodological Norms and Directives.
  • Notes.
  • 2 / The Relation of Correspondence.
  • 2.1. Literal Reference.
  • 2.2. The Characteristics of Essentially Corrective (Strict) Correspondence.
  • 2.3. Remarks of Traditional Understandings of Correspondence.
  • 2.4. An Example of Essentially Corrective Correspondence, A Debate with the Views of P. K. Feyerabend.
  • 3 / The Opposition of Theory and Experience.
  • 3.1. ‘Dogma of Empiricism’.
  • 3.2. Performed Action as the Essentially Corrected Correspondence Rendering of Undertaken Action.
  • 3.3 Two Kinds of Opposition of Theory and Experience: The Relative and the Absolute.
  • 4 / The Duhem-Quine Thesis.
  • 4.1. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V. Quine.
  • 4.2. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V Quine from the Viewpoint of Historical Epistemology.
  • 5 / Althusser’s Instrumentalism.
  • 5.1. A Marxist Variant of Theoretical Historicism Methodology.
  • 5.2. Althusser’s Conception of Historical Materialism.
  • 5.3. ‘Anti-Empiricism’ as a Consequence of the ‘Methodologically’ Instrumentalist Interpretation of Historical Materialism.