Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Science in Practice
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This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Modal Justification via Theories
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This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she...

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Télécharger le livre :  Modal Epistemology After Rationalism
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This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence
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This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.This work examines the conditions for artificial intelligence, how these relate to the conditions...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification
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This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, and reliable processes. The book’s...

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Télécharger le livre :  Meta-metaphysics
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Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice.Before we get there, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Computing and Philosophy
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This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies and...

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Parution : 2015-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language
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This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being
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This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his...

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Télécharger le livre :  Applications of Conceptual Spaces
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This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters. The first section explores issues of linguistic semantics, including speakers’ negotiation of meaning. Further...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Information Quality
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This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards. The meaning and practical implementation of IQ are addressed, as it is relevant to any field where there is a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate
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This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals.This...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mereology and the Sciences
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This volume is the first systematic and thorough attempt to investigate the relation and the possible applications of mereology to contemporary science. It gathers contributions from leading scholars in the field and covers a wide range of scientific theories and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Virtue Epistemology Naturalized
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This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bas van Fraassen's Approach to Representation and Models in Science
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This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific...

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Télécharger le livre :  Epistemology, Context, and Formalism
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The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized – a question of prime importance and utmost relevance to such...

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Télécharger le livre :  Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics
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This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena. Building upon a view advanced by James McAllister, the assertion is that beauty in science...

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Télécharger le livre :  Explanation in the Special Sciences
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Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past. Maximizing the opportunities for cross-fertilization in these two fields requires an accurate reckoning of...

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Parution : 2013-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Axiomatic Method and Category Theory
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This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia. The author, a well-known philosopher and historian of mathematics,...

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Parution : 2013-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Artefact Kinds
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This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is,...

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Parution : 2013-10-04
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