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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Philosophy of Information Quality Luciano Floridi , Phyllis Illari 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-08-01 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate Finn Collin , Julie Zahle 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-06-05 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mereology and the Sciences Claudio Calosi , Pierluigi Graziani 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-06-02 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Virtue Epistemology Naturalized Abrol Fairweather 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-27 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bas van Fraassen's Approach to Representation and Models in Science Wenceslao J. Gonzalez 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-19 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Epistemology, Context, and Formalism Franck Lihoreau , Manuel Rebuschi 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-01-17 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics Ulianov Montano 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-12-20 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Explanation in the Special Sciences Andreas Hüttemann , Marie I. Kaiser , Daniel Plenge , Oliver R. Scholz 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-29 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Axiomatic Method and Category Theory Andrei Rodin 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-14 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Artefact Kinds Maarten Franssen , Peter Kroes , Thomas A.C. Reydon , Pieter E. Vermaas 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-04 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Functions: selection and mechanisms Philippe Huneman This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-02-20 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bayesian Argumentation Frank Zenker Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-12-09 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Around the Tree Fabrice Correia , Andrea Iacona Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-11-30 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Existence as a Real Property Francesco Berto This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-10-17 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs Gregor Betz Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-08-15 Collection : Synthese Library PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Strict Finitism and the Logic of Mathematical Applications Feng Ye This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories. The applied mathematical theories developed in the book include the basics of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-07-06 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Reasoning about Preference Dynamics Fenrong Liu Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines. This book uses techniques from modern logics of information flow and action to develop a unified new theory of what... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-30 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Proof, Computation and Agency Johan Van Benthem , Amitabha Gupta , Rohit Parikh Proof, Computation and Agency: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic and its relationship with other disciplines. As a highlight, several articles pursue an inspiring paradigm called 'social software', which studies patterns of social interaction... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-04-02 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Games, Norms and Reasons Johan Van Benthem , Amitabha Gupta , Eric Pacuit Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. This book continues a series... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-03-30 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Dynamic Formal Epistemology Patrick Girard , Mathieu Marion , Olivier Roy This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call “dynamic epistemology”. It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-06 Collection : Synthese Library ePub 94,94 €
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