MERLEAU-PONTY, SKLAR, AND PLURALIST ONTOLOGIES

Author(s): CARMEN PETCU
Journal: Analysis and Metaphysics
ISSN: 1584-0778
Year: 2006
Volume: 5
Issue: -1
Full text: http://www.denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=62
Publisher: Denbridge Press - New York
Abstract: ABSTRACT. Merleau-Ponty claims that the phenomenal field places a fundamental difficulty in the way of any attempt to make experience directly and totally explicit. Sklar holds that the explanatory and predictive methods of science constitute a diverse plurality; science itself declares the continuous fluids of hydrodynamics to be merely “useful fictions”. Sklar speaks of flowing fluids as continuous media.