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The Universe of Modern Science and its Philosophical Exploration

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Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe

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Our ultimate concern is with some larger aspects of the interpretation and significance of the world-view of science: questions about the nature of the knowledge that has been acquired, about the extent to which we can consider it to be knowledge, about the methods by which it has been acquired, about what constitute adequate reasons for belief, about what it is for something to exist and to have properties, about humanity’s place in the universe, about humanity’s values and their basis, and about the means and possibilities of fulfilling them. These are questions which have traditionally been assigned to the philosophy of science or to philosophy more generally. What is the relevance of the current scientific picture of the universe to such questions?

Conference presentation of this paper was aided by National Science Foundation Grant Int-8905411

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Shapere, D. (1991). The Universe of Modern Science and its Philosophical Exploration. In: Agazzi, E., Cordero, A. (eds) Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe. Synthese Library, vol 217. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3598-6_4

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