Hans Vaihinger

The Philosophy of 'As if' (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Schmidt, Bernhard J.

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• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783755716778
• Artikelnr.: 62841857

Autorenporträt

born on September 25, 1852 in Nehren near Tübingen; died on December 18, 1933 in Halle (Saale). Vaihinger was a German philosopher and Kant researcher.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Rosenthal General
Introduction Part 1: Basic Principles General Introductory Remarks on
Fictional Constructs A. The Enumeration and Division of Scientific Fictions
B. The Logical Theory of Scientific Fictions C. Contributions to the
History and Theory of Fictions D. Consequences for the Theory of Knowledge
Part 2: Amplified Study of Special Problems 1. Artificial Classification 2.
Further Artificial Classifications 3. Adam Smith's Method in Political
Economy 4. Bentham's Method in Political Science 5. Abstractive Fictional
Methods in Physics and Psychology 6. Condillac's Imaginary Statue 7.
Lotze's 'Hypothetical Animal' 8. Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation 9.
The Fiction of Force 10. Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories 11.
Abstract Concepts as Fictions 12. General Ideas as Fictions 13.
Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions 14. Natural Forces and
Natural Laws as Fictions 15. Schematic Fictions 16. Illustrative Fictions
17. The Atomic Theory as a Fiction 18. Fictions in Mathematical Physics 19.
The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space 20. Surface, Line, Point, etc., as
Fictions 21. The Fiction of the Infinitely Small 22. The History of the
Infinitesimal Fiction 23. The Meaning of the' As If' Approach 24. The
Fictive Judgment 25. The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis Part 3:
Historical Confirmations A. Kant's Use of the 'As If' Method B. Forberg,
The Originator of the Fichtean Atheism-Controversy, and his Religion of
As-If C. Lange's 'Standpoint of the Ideal' D. Nietzsche and his Doctrine of
Conscious Illusion. Subject Index Index of Names