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The Structure of Appearance

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  • © 1977

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Authors:
  1. Nelson Goodman
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 53)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-L
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  2. On the Theory of System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Constructional Definition

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 3-23

    3. The General Apparatus

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      Pages 24-44

    4. Extralogical Bases

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 45-89

  3. On Qualities and the Concrete

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Approach to the Problems

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 93-109

    3. The System of the Aufbau

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      Pages 110-134

    4. Foundations of a Realistic System

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 135-155

    5. Concreta and Qualification

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 156-179

    6. Size and Shape

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 180-189

  4. On Order, Measure, and Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. The Problem of Order

      • Nelson Goodman
      Pages 193-214

    3. Topology of Quality

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      Pages 215-257

    4. Of Time and Eternity

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      Pages 258-276

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 277-294
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About this book

With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear­ ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in­ fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages of Art. There remains the task of understanding Good­ man's project as a whole; to see the deep continuities of his thought, as it ranges from logic to epistemology, to science and art; to see it therefore as a complex yet coherent theory of human cognition and practice. What we can only hope to suggest, in this note, is the b. road Significance of Goodman's apparently technical work for philosophers, scientists and humanists. One may say of Nelson Goodman that his bite is worse than his bark. Behind what appears as a cool and methodical analysis of the conditions of the construction of systems, there lurks a radical and disturbing thesis: that the world is, in itself, no more one way than another, nor are we. It depends on the ways in which we take it, and on what we do.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Structure of Appearance

  • Authors: Nelson Goodman

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1184-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1977

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0773-4Published: 30 September 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0774-1Published: 30 September 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1184-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: L, 294

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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