Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

Series | Buch | Kapitel

209354

Conceptual idealism and Stove's gem

Alan Musgrave

pp. 25-35

Abstrakt

Let me begin with a true story. I once gave a talk at the Sociological Institute at Amsterdam University. A Dutch sociologist, Gerard de Vries, was deputed to comment on my talk. He said my picture of different theories about just one world was utterly naive: different theories, different worlds. He gave an example: "When the concept "person with an IQ two standard deviations above the mean" was invented new entities came into being". So, I replied, there are two ways of making babies, the way we all know and love, namely love, and this new way, psychological theorising. I was then told that the new entities were not babies, were not even persons with an IQ two standard deviations above the mean. I could form no clear idea of what kind of thing they were. My ex-friend Gerard de Vries was, of course, a conceptual idealist.

Publication details

Published in:

Dalla Chiara Maria Luisa, Giuntini Roberto, Laudisa Federico (1999) Language, quantum, music: selected contributed papers of the tenth international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Florence, august 1995. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 25-35

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2043-4_4

Referenz:

Musgrave Alan (1999) „Conceptual idealism and Stove's gem“, In: M. L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini & F. Laudisa (eds.), Language, quantum, music, Dordrecht, Springer, 25–35.