书目名称 | Reflections on Human Inquiry | 副标题 | Science, Philosophy, | 编辑 | Nirmalangshu Mukherji | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides a philosophical analysis of human knowledge systems.Examines the relationship between science, philosophy, and the arts as forms of inquiry.Studies the role of textuality, traditions and huma | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view. Human beings are endowed with cognitive agency. Our grasp of the world, and of ourselves, are not merely responses to external stimuli; they are reflective products of human inquiry. At one point in human history it was thought that modern science, especially theoretical physics, is the paradigm of human inquiry. Where does this form of inquiry significantly apply? Are there limits on its claims of truth and objectivity? How much of the vast canvas of human experience does it cover? Where do other forms of inquiry, such as philosophy, religion, and the arts, attain their salience? . .With the emergence of the scientific study of the human mind itself, these critical questions have taken a more intriguing form in recent decades. Can human inquiry investigate its own nature? Can the scientific theory of language explain the richness of human expression? Can a science of the mind account for human experience? These probing questions on the scientific enterprise are usually addressed from the outside, as it were, by humanists and critical theorists. In these essays, they are examined | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | Thomas Nagel; textuality and interpretation; Noam Chomsky; grammar and human mind; literary mode of life | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5364-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-5378-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-5364-1 | copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2017 |
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