The Philosophy of As if

H. Vaihinger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415488228
  9780415225298
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136358449
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• PREFACE
• AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRO_CHAPTER I. —Thought, considered from the point of view ofa purposive organic Function.
• INTRO_CHAPTER II.—Thought as an Art, Logic as Technology.
• INTRO_CHAPTER III. —The Difference between the Artifices and Rules of Thought
• INTRO_CHAPTER IV. —The Transition to Fictions.
• PART I
• CHAPTER I.—Artificial Classification
• CHAPTER II.—Abstractive (Neglective) Fictions
• CHAPTER III.—Schematic, Paradigmatic, Utopian and Type Fictions
• CHAPTER IV.— Symbolic (Analogical) Fictions
• CHAPTER V.— Juristic Fictions
• CHAPTER VI.— Personificatory Fictions
• CHAPTER VII.— Summational Fictions
• CHAPTER VIII.— Heuristic Fictions
• CHAPTER IX.— Practical (Ethical) Fictions
• CHAPTER X.— The Fundamental Fictional Concepts of Mathematics
• CHAPTER XI.— The Method of Abstract Generalization
• CHAPTER XII.— The Method of Unjustified Transference
• CHAPTER XIII.— The Concept of Infinity
• CHAPTER XIV.— Matter and the Sensory World of Ideas
• CHAPTER XV.— The Atom as a Fiction
• CHAPTER XVI.— Fictions in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics
• CHAPTER XVII.— Things–in–themselves
• CHAPTER XVIII. —THE ABSOLUTE
• CHAPTER XIX. —Introductory Remarks on the Position of Fictions and Semi–fictions in the Logical System as a Whole
• CHAPTER XX.— The Separation of Scientific from other Fictions, particularly from the AEsthetic
• CHAPTER XXI.— The Difference between Fiction and Hypothesis
• CHAPTER XXII.— The Linguistic Form of the Fiction. Analysis of “As–if”
• CHAPTER XXIII.— Collection of Expressions for ‘Fiction’
• CHAPTER XXIV.— The Main Characteristics of Fictions
• CHAPTER XXV.— Outline of a General Theory of Fictional Constructs
• CHAPTER XXVI.— The Method of Correcting Arbitrary Differences or the Method of Antithetic Error
• CHAPTER XXVII.— The Law of Ideational Shifts
• CHAPTER XXVIII.—The Theory and Practice of Fictions
• CHAPTER XIX.— Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Greeks
• CHAPTER XXX.— The Use of the Fiction among the Romans
• CHAPTER XXXI.— Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Romans
• CHAPTER XXXII.— Medieval Terminology
• CHAPTER XXXIII.— The Use of Fictions in Modern Times
• CHAPTER XXXIV. —The Theory of Fictions in Modern Times
• CHAPTER XXXV. —The Basic Problem of the Theory of Know– ledge
• CHAPTER XXXVI.—The Falsification of Reality by the Logical Functions (Logical Optimism, Pessimism and Criticism)
• CHAPTER XXXVII.—Categories as Fictions (with a General Discussion of the Practical Purpose of Thought)
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. —Categories as Analogical Fictions
• CHAPTER XXXIX.—The Practical Utility of the Fiction of Categories
• § 1—Artificial Classification
• § 2—Further Artificial Classifications
• § 3—Adam Smith’s Method in Political Economy .
• § 4—Bentham’s Method in Political Science
• § 5—Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology
• § 6—Condillac’s Imaginary Statue
• § 7—Lotze’s ‘ Hypothetical Animal ‘.
• § 8—Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation
• § 9—The Fiction of Force
• § 10—Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories
• § 11—Abstract Concepts as Fictions
• § 12—General Ideas as Fictions
• § 13—Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions
• § 14—Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions
• § 15—Schematic Fictions
• § 16—Illustrative Fictions
• § 17—The Atomic Theory as a Fiction .
• § 18—Fictions in Mathematical Physics .
• § 19—The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space
• § 20—Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions
• § 21—The Fiction of the Infinitely Small
• § 22—The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction .
• § 23—The Meaning of the ‘As If’ Approach
• § 24—The Fictive Judgment.
• § 25—The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis .
• I.—The Fundamental Elements in the principal Critical Works of Kant
• II.—Discussion of Principles in Kant’s Chief Works on Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion
• III.—Confirmations and Applications in the Other Works of the Critical Period (especially of 1790).
• IV.—Kant’s Posthumous Papers
• B.—FORBERG, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE FICHTEAN ATHEI8M–CONTROVERSY, AND HIS RELIGION OF AS–IF
• C.—LANGE’S “STANDPOINT OF THE IDEAL”.
• D.—NIETZSCHE AND HIS DOCTRINE OF CONSCIOUS ILLUSION(The Will to Illusion)
• Subject
• Index