Andersen, Holly (2022) Hodgson on the relations between philosophy, science and time. British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
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Shadworth Hodgson offers an account of how philosophy relates to science - both physical and psychological - in which three different conceptions of time can be identified. He distinguishes the methods of philosophy, involving analysis of the contents of immediate consciousness, and of science, which presumes the existence of the world of common sense. Hodgson holds that philosophical analysis of immediate consciousness, or the analysis of a present moment in the experience, provides the ultimate justification for knowledge in science. Time as an object of study in science must be distinguished from the temporal structure of immediate consciousness. Time as a target of scientific study is thus differentiable into time in physical science, and time in psychology, where the temporal characteristics of consciousness can be studied, but only from a perspective external to that consciousness. Each of those scientific conceptions of time still presupposes and are evidentially dependent on the analysis of immediate consciousness, itself already temporal. The result is that time as a fundamental unit of experience could not, even in principle, conflict with time as studied in science, because it is presupposed by and the evidential base for claims about time in science.
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| Keywords: | Hodgson, consciousness, time, experience, empiricism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Holly Andersen | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2022 04:08 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2022 04:08 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 20406 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2046544 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2046544 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 25 March 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20406 |
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