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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2018-01-30
Upplaga
2 Revised edition
Förlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 15 mm
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250 g
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1
ISBN
9781554813452

More Precisely

The Math You Need to Do Philosophy

av Eric Steinhart
Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-01-30
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More Precisely is a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. It is impossible to fully understand much of the most important work in contemporary philosophy without a basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, decision theory, and modality. More Precisely is written for people who wish to engage with contemporary philosophical writing but first need to fill gaps in their technical knowledge. Eric Steinhart provides lucid explanations of many basic mathematical concepts and sets out most commonly used notational conventions. He also demonstrates how mathematics applies to fundamental issues in various branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics. This second edition adds a substantive section on decision and game theory, as well as a chapter on information theory and the efficient coding of information.
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"More Precisely is a very useful tool for philosophers with a limited formal background who nevertheless aim to leave a lasting mark on the discipline." - Nathan Salmon, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara "Back in the day, philosophy graduate students might have been expected to complete a course in metalogic. It would be far better to complete a course that covers the topics presented here. This is excellent coverage of a wide range of mathematical ideas and techniques that are at the heart of many contemporary issues in metaphysics and epistemology." - F. Thomas Burke, University of South Carolina

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Eric Steinhart is a professor of philosophy at William Paterson University. He is the author of Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), On Nietzsche (Wadsworth 1999), and The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds (Kluwer Academic 2001).

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Preface Chapter 1: Sets Chapter 2: Relations Chapter 3: Machines Chapter 4: Semantics Chapter 5: Probability Chapter 6: Information Theory Chapter 7: Decisions and Games Chapter 8: From the Finite to the Infinite Chapter 9: Bigger Infinities Further Study Glossary of Symbols

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