Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind - Paperback

by Paul M. Churchland (Author)

Looking at the premise of scientific realism, this text shows how to expand perceptual and introspective consciousness, and come to see the physical world and ourselves through the categories provided by science.

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The present essay is addressed simultaneously to two distinct audiences. The first audience consists of my professional colleagues, other academics, students, and lay readers, who are less than intimately familiar with the philosophical position commonly called scientific realism. For them I have here attempted to make available in fairly short compass a coherent and comprehensive account of that position as it bears on the philosophy of perception, on the theory of meaning, on the philosophy of mind, and on systematic epistemology.