Télécharger le livre :  Paradoxes Between Truth and Proof
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This book is a collection of essays that offer original logical and philosophical investigations into the century-long endeavor to understand paradoxes. It bridges the gap between the two most prominent traditions in the analysis of paradoxes: the truth-theoretic and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth
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This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainly a Boolean logic, and the smallest (non-degenerate) Boolean...

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Télécharger le livre :  First-Order Modal Logic
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This revised edition of the highly recommended book "First-Order Modal Logic", originally published in 1998, contains both new and modified chapters reflecting the latest scientific developments. Fitting and Mendelsohn present a thorough treatment of first-order modal...

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Télécharger le livre :  Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
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This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported by quantum mechanics. No one did more to promote this idea than the Brazilian philosopher Décio Krause,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Current Debates in Philosophy of Science
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This volume collects previously unpublished contributions to the philosophy of science. What brings them together is a twofold goal: first and foremost, celebrating the name of Roberto Torretti, whose works in this and other areas have had –and continue to have– a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Simulating Science
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This book provides a philosophical framework to understand computer simulations as scientific instruments.This is in sharp contrast to existing philosophical approaches on the subject, which have historically understood computer simulations as either formal abstractions...

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Astrophysics
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This is an open access book.This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are currently shaping this field, and it...

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Parution : 2023-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines
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This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Mathematical Thinking
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This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century. Representing a unique point of view combining mathematics, philosophy and history on this issue, it presents an original analysis of key authors, for example Bourbaki, Grothendieck and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Representation, Experience, and Metaphysics
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This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy.This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Richard Rorty, Paul Horwich, Huw Price and Amie Thomasson. It is the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Priority of Propositions. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Logic
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This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege´s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and continued by...

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Télécharger le livre :  Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding
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This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz’s epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of proof-theoretic semantics. The theory of grounds is also provided with a formal framework, through which several...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Theory of Gödel
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This book presents Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics. Results are stated in the form most relevant for use in the philosophy of mathematics. An appendix considers their...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
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This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Asymmetric Nature of Time
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This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas...

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Télécharger le livre :  Knowing What Things Are
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?This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ernst Schro¨der on Algebra and Logic
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This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind,...

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Parution : 2022-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality
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This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics. These questions have been long-standing and are of continued interest to researchers and graduate students working in physics, philosophy of physics, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Current Trends in Philosophy of Science
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This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology
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This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the...

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