Search results for "empirismi"

Avicenna’s Outsourced Rationalism

2020

This paper refutes the claim that Avicenna's theory of science is empiricist in the robust, Lockean sense. I argue that his denial of innatism notwithstanding, the theory of formal identity, together with the metaphysical idea that the ontological structure of the sublunary world is grounded in the active intellect, commits Avicenna to a peculiar kind of rationalism in which the ultimate source of knowledge is an intellect, albeit one extraneous to the human mind. I then introduce two hitherto insufficiently discussed texts to challenge this conclusion. In the end, I claim that although this new material may provide some evidence for a robust empiricism in Avicenna, its consequences remaine…

Universal Gravitation and the (Un)Intelligibility of Natural Philosophy

2019

This article centers on Hume's position on the intelligibility of natural philosophy. To that end, the controversy surrounding universal gravitation shall be scrutinized. It is very well known that Hume sides with the Newtonian experimentalist approach rather than with the Leibnizian demand for intelligibility. However, what is not clear is Hume's overall position on the intelligibility of natural philosophy. It shall be argued that Hume declines Leibniz's principle of intelligibility. However, Hume does not eschew intelligibility altogether; his concept of causation itself stipulates mechanical intelligibility. peerReviewed

Time as an Empirical Concept in Special Relativity

2019

According to a widespread view, Einstein’s definition of time in his special relativity is founded on the positivist verification principle. The present paper challenges this received outlook. It argues that Einstein’s position on the concept of time, to wit, simultaneity, is best understood as a mitigated version of concept empiricism. He contrasts his position to Newton’s absolutist and Kant’s transcendental arguments, and in part sides with Hume’s and Mach’s empiricist arguments. Nevertheless, Einstein worked out a concept empiricism that is considerably more moderate than what we find in the preceding empiricist tradition and early logical positivism. He did not think that the origin of…

Hume, David

2013

David Hume (1711—1776) oli skotlantilainen filosofi, historioitsija ja esseisti. Humea pidetään yleisesti merkittävimpänä englanninkielisenä filosofina. Hänen monipuolinen filosofinen työnsä kattaa lähes kaikki filosofian osa-alueet: tieto-opin, metafysiikan ja ontologian, mielenfilosofian ja tahdonvapauden ongelman, matematiikan filosofian, tieteen- ja luonnonfilosofian, yhteiskunta- ja moraalifilosofian, metaetiikan, estetiikan sekä uskonnonfilosofian. Nykyisestä Hume-tutkimuksesta suurin osa on historiallista, mutta monet hänen filosofiansa keskeiset teemat, kuten kausaliteetti, mielen kimpputeoria, induktion ongelma, sekä arvojen ja tosiseikkojen erottelu, ovat olennaisia myös nykyfilos…

Pragmatistinen merkitysteoria : Humen ongelman ratkaisu?

2007

Culture in sustainability : towards a transdisciplinary approach

2017

1 INTRODUCTION, 5, Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović, Katriina Soini, Katarzyna Plebańczyk, Sari Asikainen PART 1: CONCEPTS 2 ENCHANTING SUSTAINABILITY: From enlightened modernity towards embodiment and planetary consciousness, 9, Hans Dieleman 3 CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL LEARNING PROCESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY, 21, Philippe Vandenbroeck 4 UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: Connecting sustainability and culture, 28, Nathalie Nunes, Hanna Söderström and Sandra Hipke PART 2: POLICIES AND PRACTICES 5 CULTURAL PROJECTS, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, AND SMALL CITY SUSTAINABILITY, 45, Isabel Ferreira and Nancy Duxbury 6 HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE APPROACH AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT, 61, …

How and Why ‘Theory’ Is Often Misunderstood in Information Systems Literature

2019

IS theory accounts have increased our understanding of scientific theories. However, many influential theory accounts in Information Systems (IS) are influenced by the Received View of scientific theory (RV), which flourished in the philosophy of science around 1930-1969. The RV has been widely rejected in the philosophy of science, as the theory ignored much of the actual scientific context, and it mischaracterized several important characteristics of scientific research and theories. Although RV ideas were crafted for philosophers’ philosophical purposes, and not for scientists’ use, several IS scholars seem to believe that some of the RV theses represent actual (good or strong) scientifi…

Esseitä Humen luonnonfilosofiasta

2016

Väitöstilaisuuden lektio pidetty 17.9.2016, klo 12 Ruusupuiston Helena-salissa, Jyväskylän yliopistossa.

Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism

2018

Positivism has been used to establish a standard that Information Systems (IS) research must meet to be scientific. According to such positivistic beliefs in IS, scientific research should: 1) be generalizable, 2) focus on stable independent variables, 3) have certain ontological assumptions, and 4) use statistical or quantitative methods rather than qualitative methods. We argue that logical positivist philosophers required none of these. On the contrary, logical positivist philosophers regarded philosophizing in general and ontological considerations in particular as nonsense. Moreover, the positivists’ preferred empirical research method was not a survey, but rather a qualitative observa…

Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism : Response to Lee’s Commentary

2020

We respond to Lee’s (forthcoming) commentary on our article “Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism” (Siponen & Tsohou [S&T], 2018). Lee offers four arguments against our analyses and conclusions in S&T (2018). First, because logical positivism (LP) has been discredited, he contends it cannot be used as a normative standard in IS. We clarify that our conclusions in S&T (2018) point to (1) the lack of justification for certain IS beliefs, and (2) a misunderstanding rather than legitimacy of LP as a philosophy of science. Second, Lee argues that IS researchers characterizing positivism never said they were following the tenets of LP. We provide evidence to show some influential…