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Apr 14, 2015 · Natural Philosophy in the Renaissance. First published Tue Apr 14, 2015; substantive revision Mon Sep 18, 2023. Natural philosophy, as distinguished from metaphysics and mathematics, is traditionally understood to encompass a wide range of subjects which Aristotle included in the physical sciences. According to this classification, natural ...
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Dec 1, 2020 · Thagard’s rationalist natural philosophy uses the explanatory modes of human psychology, particularly cognitive psychology, to offer alternative perspectives on areas of philosophy, such as moral philosophy and aesthetics, that have traditionally been based on non-naturalistic grounds.
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Jul 29, 2016 · Each provides a comprehensive worldview ranging from logic to psychology, from metaphysics to ethics (although admittedly, ethics is treated only scantly). At the middle of this Avicennan worldview is natural philosophy or physics (ʿilm ṭabīʿī). The significance of natural philosophy, and Avicenna’s physics in particular, is twofold.
Philosophy of psychology is concerned with the history and foundations of psychology. It deals with both epistemological and ontological issues and shares interests with other fields, including philosophy of mind and theoretical psychology .
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology Psychology aims to give us a scientific account of how the mind works. But what does it mean to have a science of the mental, and what sort of picture of the mind emerges from our best psychological theories? This book addresses these philosophical puzzles in a way that is accessible to readers ...
Jan 11, 2000 · The broadest is nutrition, which is shared by all natural living organisms; animals have perception in addition; and among natural organisms humans alone have mind. Aristotle maintains that various kinds of souls, nutritive, perceptual, and intellectual, form a kind of hierarchy.
Much naturalistic epistemology looks to psychology and, in certain cases, the natural sciences to develop an understanding of knowledge. Especially in the philosophy of science, however, Thomas Kuhn’s work has inspired a naturalistic approach that applies the social sciences to epistemological questions.
