Rise of Scientific Philosophy Reichenbach HansPaperback
Rise of Scientific Philosophy Reichenbach HansPaperback This book represents a new approach to philosophy. It recognizes in traditional philosophical systems the historical function of having asked…
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Rise of Scientific Philosophy Reichenbach HansPaperback
This book represents a new approach to philosophy. It recognizes in traditional philosophical systems the historical function of having asked questions rather than having given solutions. It treats philosophy as not a collection of systems, but as a study of problems.
Their search for certainty and for moral directives led them to accept pseudo-solutions. Professor Reichenbach traces the failures of the systems to psychological causes.Speculative philosophers offered answers at a time when science had not yet provided the means to give true answers. Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, and many others are cited to illustrate the rationalist fallacy: reason, unaided by observation, was regarded as a source of knowledge, revealing the physical world and "moral truth." The empiricists could not disprove this thesis, for they could not give a valid account of mathematical