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Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is. It is the science of the world's quantitative aspects (such as ratio) and structural or patterned aspects (such as symmetry). The book develops a complete philosophy of mathematics that contrasts with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-09
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This book contains 20 essays tracing the work of David Zarefsky, a leading North American scholar of argumentation from a rhetorical perspective. The essays cohere around 4 general themes: objectives for studying argumentation rhetorically, approaches to rhetorical...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-04-01
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Realizing Reason pursues three interrelated themes. First, it traces the essential moments in the historical unfolding--from the ancient Greeks, through Descartes, Kant, and developments in the nineteenth century, to the present--that culminates in the realization of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-27
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Realizing Reason pursues three interrelated themes. First, it traces the essential moments in the historical unfolding--from the ancient Greeks, through Descartes, Kant, and developments in the nineteenth century, to the present--that culminates in the realization of...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into five main sections: history of logic (from Russell to Tarski);...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-09
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Vague words, like "tall," "rich," and "old," lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged. Because they lack clear boundaries, these ordinary words cause logical and semantic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning. It examines various contexts in which defeasible reasoning is useful and offers a compact introduction into adaptive logics. The author first familiarizes...
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Springer
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2013-11-29
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This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics. There are four parts to this book, beginning with a look at motivations for Pluralism by way of Realism,...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-20
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This book explains the first published consistency proof of PA. It contains the original Gentzen's proof, but it uses modern terminology and examples to illustrate the essential notions. The author comments on Gentzen's steps which are supplemented with exact...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-23
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Mit Georg Misch versucht diese Abhandlung, dem Wort seine ursprüngliche Bedeutungsfülle zurückzugeben. Mischs Konzeption einer Logik des Lebens begreift das Wort als das mächtige Wort. Die Frage nach dem Leben treibt die Fragestellung der Abhandlung über die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw Lesniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author’s nuanced survey...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-09-24
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In Seeing Things, Robert Hudson assesses a common way of arguing about observation reports called "robustness reasoning." Robustness reasoning claims that an observation report is more likely to be true if the report is produced by multiple, independent sources. Seeing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-02
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Written by experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematical practice. Argumentation theory studies reasoning and argument, and especially those aspects not...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-07-01
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Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-28
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Common sense tells us that we are morally responsible for our actions only if we have free will -- and that we have free will only if we are able to choose among alternative actions.Common sense tells us that we do have free will and are morally responsible for many of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-05-06
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Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Kritik, die Wittgenstein am logizistischen Begründungsprojekt der Mathematik übt, sowie der von ihm daran angeschlossenen kritischen Hinterfragung des eigenen Standpunktes. Dazu sollen seine Einwände gegen die Tauglichkeit des von Russell...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-01
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Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
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This new volume on logic follows a recognizable format that deals in turn with the topics of mathematical logic, moving from concepts, via definitions and inferences, to theories and axioms. However, this fresh work offers a key innovation in its ‘pyramidal’ graph...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-11-30
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