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Combinators, λ-Terms and Proof Theory
Av S. Stenlund
Inbunden, 1972
1289 kr
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The aim of this monograph is to present some of the basic ideas and results in pure combinatory logic and their applications to some topics in proof theory, and also to present some work of my own. Some of the material in chapter 1 and 3 has already appeared in my notes Introduction to Combinatory …
Truth-Seeking by Abduction
Häftad, 2018
1203 kr
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This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. It explores the historical and systematic connections of Peirce's original ideas and debates about their interpretations. Abduction is understood in a broad …
Mathematical Intuition
Phenomenology and Mathematical Knowledge
Av R.L. Tieszen
Inbunden, 1989
2189 kr
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"Intuition" has perhaps been the least understood and the most abused term in philosophy. It is often the term used when one has no plausible explanation for the source of a given belief or opinion. According to some sceptics, it is understood only in terms of what it is not, and it is not any of …
Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100
Av Roman Frigg, J. McKenzie Alexander m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
551 kr
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This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th Century, and his ideas remain important and relevant today. November 2022 saw the centenary of …
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
Av Ana-Maria Crețu, Michela Massimi
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. But there …
Indexical ‘I’
The First Person in Thought and Language
Av I. Brinck
Inbunden, 1997
1098 kr
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The subject of this book is the first person in thought and language. The main question concerns what we mean when we say 'J'. Related to it are questions about what kinds of self-consciousness and self-knowledge are needed in order for us to have the capacity to talk about ourselves. The emphasis …
Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic
Selected Essays
Av Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka
Inbunden, 1989
1643 kr
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somewhat like Henkin's nonstandard interpretation of higher-order logics, while the right semantics [or logical modalities is an analogue to the standard of type theory in Henkin's sense. interpretation Another possibility would be to follow W.V. Quine's advice to give up logi- cal modalities as …
Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic
Selected Essays
Av Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka
Häftad, 1989
1643 kr
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somewhat like Henkin's nonstandard interpretation of higher-order logics, while the right semantics [or logical modalities is an analogue to the standard of type theory in Henkin's sense. interpretation Another possibility would be to follow W.V. Quine's advice to give up logi- cal modalities as …
E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics
Häftad, 1989
1971 kr
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The first six chapters of this volume present the author's 'predictive' or information theoretic' approach to statistical mechanics, in which the basic probability distributions over microstates are obtained as distributions of maximum entropy (Le. , as distributions that are most non-committal …
Circle of Acquaintance
Perception, Consciousness, and Empathy
Av D.W Smith
Inbunden, 1989
1098 kr
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This book studies the problem of acquaintance against the background of a more general theory of intentionality. Much of the relevant background is laid out in the book I wrote with Ronald McIntyre, Husserl and Intentionality (1982). However, since this book is not focussed on HusserI, I shall not …
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium
A Study in Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
Av Maren Kusch
Inbunden, 1989
1643 kr
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I first became interested in Husserl and Heidegger as long ago as 1980, when as an undergraduate at the Freie Universitat Berlin I studied the books by Professor Ernst Tugendhat. Tugendhat's at tempt to bring together analytical and continental philosophy has never ceased to fascinate me, and even …
Historical Roots of Cognitive Science
The Rise of a Cognitive Theory of Perception from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 1989
1643 kr
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Cognitive science, in Howard Gardner's words, has a relatively short history but a very long past. While its short history has been the subject of quite a few studies published in recent years, the current book focuses instead on its very long past. It explores the emergence of the conceptual …
Observability and Observation in Physical Science
Av Peter Kosso
Inbunden, 1989
1098 kr
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The concept of observability of entities in physical science is typically analyzed in terms of the nature and significance of a dichotomy between observables and unobservables. In this book, however, this categorization is resisted and observability is analyzed in a descriptive way in terms of the …
Acting and Reflecting
The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy
Inbunden, 1989
1098 kr
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In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the social sciences, and linguistics. To mark the inauguration of the department, a daylong celebration was held …
Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters
Av H.A. Lewis
Inbunden, 1991
2189 kr
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The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen. Our aim was to celebrate the work of a living philosopher by presenting it both from his own point of view, through the medium of a philosophical autobiography, and from that of his closest philo sophical colleagues and …
Beyond the Inner and the Outer
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology
Av M. ter Hark
Inbunden, 1990
1643 kr
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Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron tations with the Philosophical Investigations I was such a reader, and so, it turned out, were …
Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism
Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the work of W.V.O. Quine and of N. Goodman
Av M. Gosselin
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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Though the subject of this work, "nominalism and contemporary nom inalism", is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially ethology, psychology, linguistics and neurobiology. The source of …
Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives
Av J.H. Fetzer, D. Shatz m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1693 kr
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Logic of Time
A Model-Theoretic Investigation into the Varieties of Temporal Ontology and Temporal Discourse
Inbunden, 1991
1643 kr
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The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different dis ciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book. Many have reacted to issues raised in its philosophical discussions, while some have even solved a number of …
Foucault’s Strata and Fields
An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies
Av Maren Kusch
Inbunden, 1991
1098 kr
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In recent years, a large number of books and articles on Foucault has been published. Almost all of the book-size studies are expository and introductory. Indeed, there seems to be no other modern philosopher with reference to whom a comparable numberofintroductionshavebeen produced in such a short …
Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Modern Essays
Av C.J. Posy
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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Kant's views about mathematics were controversial in his own time, and they have inspired or infuriated thinkers ever since. Though specific Kantian doctrines fell into disrepute earlier in this century, the past twenty-five years have seen a surge of interest in and respect for Kant's philosophy …
New Perspectives on Cybernetics
Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism
Av G. Vijver
Inbunden, 1991
1067 kr
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Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Despite all rejections that cybernetics has …
Tradition and Individuality
Essays
Av J.C. Nyíri
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and computers. The later Wittgenstein is shown to be on the one hand a traditionalist, and on the other hand, along with Heidegger, a philosopher of postmodern -- secondary -- orality, …
Kant’s Transcendental Deduction
An Analysis of Main Themes in His Critical Philosophy
Av R.C. Howell
Inbunden, 1992
2189 kr
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The argument of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Critique of Pure Reason is the deepest and most far-reaching in philosophy. In his new book, Robert Howell interprets main themes of the Deduction using ideas from contemporary philosophy and intensional logic, thereby providing …
Logical Foundations of the Marxian Theory of Value
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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Mter the impressive collapseoftheSovietUnionand the Eastern European socialist countries, it is more pertinent than ever to recover the scientific legacy ofKarl Marx. This legacy is mainly (if not exclusively) constituted by his work in the field of eco- nomic theory. Marx's economic theory was …
Statement and Referent
An Inquiry into the Foundations of Our Conceptual Order
Inbunden, 1992
552 kr
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This treatise, in its first part, moves from a consideration of behaviour and utterance through a definition of assertion as a kind of utterance to a consideration of statements, conceived of as products of assertion, to be represented by pairs of testing procedures of verification and …
Problems of the Hegelian Dialectic
Dialectic Reconstructed as a Logic of Human Reality
Av M. Rosen
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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In this book, I deal with some fundamental problems of the Hegelian dialectic. For this purpose, I take a middle course between total scepticism, which considers dialectic as a devastator sophistry with no respect even for the non-contradiction principle, and authoritarian dogmatism, which claims …
Models and Methods in the Philosophy of Science: Selected Essays
Inbunden, 1993
2189 kr
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The thirty-one papers collected in this volume represent most of the arti cles that I have published in the philosophy of science and related founda tional areas of science since 1970. The present volume is a natural succes sor to Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science, a …
Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
Av R.M. Dancy
Inbunden, 1993
1098 kr
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On 5-6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions ofthe) papers presented on that occasion. The occasion was, give or take a few months, the 90th birthday of Professor (Emeritus) William H. Werkmeister. Werkie (as all his …
