The Clash of the Images

Why the Manifest Image and the Scientific Image Are Incompatible

by Adem Mulamustafic

Book cover: The Clash of the Images

Extent: 212 pages

Publisher: Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Theoria

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2022)

ISBN: 9783757400651

Price: $58.00

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In everyday life, we take there to be ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and stones bearing certain properties such as color and shape and standing in various causal relationships to each other. Basic convictions such as these form our everyday picture of the world: the manifest image. The scientific image, on the other hand, is a system of beliefs that is only based on scientific results. It contains many beliefs we are not familiar with. At first glance, this may not seem to be a problem. But Mulamustafic shows convincingly that this is a mistake: The world as it is in itself cannot be both the way the manifest image depicts it and the way the scientific image describes it to be.

  • By (author) Adem Mulamustafic