Foresight and Knowledge

by Yves Renee Marie Simon

For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science: the search for explanation. The philosophy Simon espouses is philosophical realism which, following Jacques Maritain, he prefers to call critical realism. Against the prejudice that only some version of philosophical idealism, be it critical or absolute,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823216225
• ISBN13: 9780823216222
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"