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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions Casper Storm Hansen This book presents a new nominalistic philosophy of mathematics: semantic conventionalism. Its central thesis is that mathematics should be founded on the human ability to create language – and specifically, the ability to institute conventions for the truth conditions... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-11-04 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Top-Down Causation and Emergence Markus Gabriel , Jan Voosholz This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation. The chapters combine to form a unique, interdisciplinary perspective, drawing upon George Ellis's extensive research and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-08-06 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics Grivas Muchineripi Kayange The main aim of this book is to discuss fundamental developments on the question of being in Western and African philosophy using analytic metaphysics as a framework. It starts with the two orthodox responses to the question of being, namely, the subject-verb-object... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-05-04 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics Helen De Cruz , Johan De Smedt A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-05-04 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy Sean Allen-Hermanson , Anton Killin This volume explores various themes at the intersection of archaeology and philosophy: inference and theory; interdisciplinary connections; cognition, language and normativity; and ethical issues. Showcasing this heterogeneity, its scope ranges from the method of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-04-26 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Vagueness as Arbitrariness Sagid Salles This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness. There are several different ways of addressing this problem and no clear agreement on which one is correct. The author proposes that it should be understood as the problem of explaining vague predicates in a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-03-12 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking María Laura Martínez Rodríguez This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work. It presents Hacking’s oeuvre as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking & doing, probability, making up people, and experimentation and scientific... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-01-19 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics Lars-Göran Johansson This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas:... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-01-13 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Noneist Explorations II Richard Routley , Val Routley This third volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood). It focuses on the essays 8 to 12 of the original... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-11-10 Collection : Synthese Library PDF 126,59 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research Wenceslao J. Gonzalez This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-10-30 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations José Tomás Alvarado This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-10-27 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Relativity of Theory Moti Mizrahi This book offers a close and rigorous examination of the arguments for and against scientific realism and introduces key positions in the scientific realism/antirealism debate, which is one of the central debates in contemporary philosophy of science. On the one... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-09-29 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation Roman Frigg , James Nguyen This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-09-02 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Philipp Berghofer , Harald A. Wiltsche This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "standard" philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings.Much has been written on the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-06-23 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Facing Relativism Alyssa Luboff This book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science. It succeeds where others have failed by combining the rigor of analytic philosophy with the first-hand insights of anthropological experience. Typically, an anthropologist’s... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-05-19 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 89,66 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Evidence and Hypothesis in Clinical Medical Science John Alexander Pinkston In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate. None can accurately explain the way evidence is gathered and used to confirm hypotheses. To correct this, he proposes a new approach called the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-05-08 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Abstract Objects José L. Falguera , Concha Martínez-Vidal This volume examines the question “Do abstract objects exist?”, presenting new work from contributing authors across different branches of philosophy. The introduction overviews philosophical debate which considers: what objects qualify as abstract, what do we mean by... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-05-08 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Dispositionalism Anne Sophie Meincke According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become increasingly popular among... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-04-08 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Dynamic Tractable Reasoning Holger Andreas This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning. It draws on Marvin Minsky's seminal work on frames, which has been highly influential in computer science and, to a lesser extent, in cognitive science. Only very few people have explored ideas... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-03-27 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science Amihud Gilead This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-03-06 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
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