Add this copy of Insight a Study of Human Understanding to cart. $84.87, very good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1980 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc..
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Revised Students' Edition. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; PART I INSIGHT AS ACTIVITY I. Elements 1. A Dramatic Instance 2. Definition 3. Higher Viewpoints 4. Inverse Insight 5. The Empirical Residue II. Heuristic Structures of Empirical Method 1. Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared 2. Classical Heuristic Structures 3. Concrete Inferences from Classical Laws 4. Statistical Heuristic Structures 5. Survey III. The Canons of Empirical Method 1. The Canon of Selection 2. The Canon of Operations 3. The Canon of Relevance 4. The Canon of Parsimony 5. The Canon of Complete Explanation 6. The Canon of Statistical Residues IV. The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations 1. Complementarity in the Knowing 2. Complementarity in the Known 3. Clarification by Contrast 4. Conclusion V. Space and Time 1. The Problem Peculiar to Physics 2. The Description of Space and Time 3. The Abstract Intelligibility of Space and Time 4. Rods and Clocks 5. The Concrete Intelligibility of Space and Time VI. Common Sense and Its Subject 1. Common Sense as Intellectual 2. The Subjective Field of Common Sense VII. Common Sense as Object 1. Practical Common Sense 2. The Dynamic Structure 3. Intersubjectivity and Social Order 4. The Tension of Community 5. The Dialectic of Community 6. Individual Bias 7. Group Bias 8. General Bias 9. Conclusion VIII. Things 1. The General Notion of the Thing 2. Bodies 3. Genus as Explanatory 4. Things Within Things 5. Things and Emergent Probability 6. Species as Explanatory 7. Concluding Summary IX. The Notion of Judgment X. Reflective Understanding 1. The General Form of Reflective Insight 2. Concrete Judgments of Fact 3. Insights into Concrete Situations 4. Concrete Analogies and Generalizations 5. Common-Sense Judgments 6. Probable Judgments 7. Analytic Propositions and Principles 8. Mathematical Judgments 9. Summary PART II INSIGHT AS KNOWLEDGE XI. Self-Affirmation of the Knower 1. The Notion of Consciousness 2. Empirical, Intelligent, and Rational Consciousness 3. The Unity of Consciousness 4. The Unity as Given 5. Self-Affirmation 6. Self-Affirmation as Immanent Law 7. Description and Explanation 8. The Impossibility of Revision 9. Self-Affirmation in the Possibility of Judgments of Fact 10. Contrast with Kantian Analysis 11. Contrast with Relativist Analysis XII. The Notion of Being 1. A Definition 2. An Unrestricted Notion 3. A Spontaneous Notion 4. An All-Pervasive Notion 5. The Core of Meaning 6. A Puzzling Notion 7. Theories of the Notion of Being XIII. The Notion of Objectivity 1. The Principal Notion 2. Absolute Objectivity 3. Normative Objectivity 4. Experiential Objectivity 5. Characteristics of the Notion XIV. The Method of Metaphysics 1. The Underlying Problem 2. A Definition of Metaphysics 3. Method in Metaphysics 4. The Dialectic of Method in Metaphysics XV. Elements of Metaphysics 1. Potency, Form, and Act 2. Central and Conjugate Forms 3. Explanatory Genera and Species 4. Potency and Limitation 5. Potency and Finality 6. The Notion of Development 7. Genetic Method 8. Summary XVI. Metaphysics as Science 1. Distinctions 2. Relations 3. The Meaning of the Metaphysical Elements 4. The Unity of Proportionate Being 5. Metaphysics as Science XVII. Metaphysics as Dialectic 1. Metaphysics, Mystery, and Myth 2. The Notion of Truth 3. The Truth of Interpretation XVIII. The Possibility of Ethics 1. The Notion of the Good 2. The Notion of Freedom 3. The Problem of Liberation XIX. General Transcendent Knowledge 1. The Notion of Transcendence 2. The Immanent Source of Transcendence 3. The Notion of Transcendent Knowledge 4. Preliminaries to Conceiving the Transcendent Idea 5. The Idea of Being 6. The Primary Component in the Idea of Being 7. The Secondary Component in the Idea of Being 8. Causality 9. The Notion of God 10. The Affirmation of God 11....
Add this copy of Insight: a Study of Human Understanding to cart. $123.40, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Harpercollins.
Add this copy of "Insight" Study Into Human Understanding to cart. $70.98, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by HarperCollins.
