TY - BOOK ID - 6402687 TI - Search for a naturalistic world view. PY - 1993 SN - 0521373522 0521373530 0521377455 1139172190 0521377447 0511621140 9780521373524 9780521373531 9780521377454 9780511621147 9780521377447 9781139172196 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Knowledge, Theory of. KW - Metaphysics. KW - Methodology. KW - Philosophy. KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Metaphysics KW - -Science KW - -Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Psychology KW - Methodology KW - -Methodology KW - -Epistemology KW - Natural science KW - -God KW - -Philosophy KW - Natural sciences KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Scientific method KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Science - Methodology. KW - Science - Philosophy. KW - Science - Methodology KW - Science - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6402687 AB - Abner Shimony an eminent philosopher of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy and physics communities. This two-volume collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Shimony regards the knowing subject as an entity in nature whose faculties must be studied from the points of view of evolutionary biology and empirical psychology. He maintains that the twentieth century is one of the great ages of metaphysics, given the deep implications of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and molecular biology. The first volume, Scientific Method and Epistemology, deals with the dialectic of subject and object, epistemic probability, induction and scientific theories, perception and conception, and fact and values. The focus of the second volume, Natural Sciences and Metaphysics, is on quantum mechanical measurement and non-locality, parts and wholes, time, and mind and matter. ER -