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Author: G. Restall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1137003723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics.
Author: Yujin Nagasawa
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Waves in Philosophy of Religion presents cutting-edge research by some of the best philosophers of religion of the new generation.
Author: O. Bueno
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230219427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going. New trends are revealed, such as an increasing attention to mathematical practice, a reassessment of the canon, and inspiration from philosophical logic.
Author: Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 1118394232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents the first complete, authoritative reference work in the field Organized thematically for use both as a full introduction to the field or an encyclopedic reference Draws on original essays from leading interdisciplinary scholars Features the most up-to-date and cutting edge research in the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy, technology, and their broader intellectual environments
Author: Vincent F. Hendricks
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2008-01-15
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past thirty years epistemology has been one of the fastest moving disciplines in philosophy. The reason for the rapid advancement is partly due to the fact that various schools and movements inside epistemology have developed different answers to classical epistemological problems, and partly due to the fact that formal methods from logic, probability theory and computability have been utilized to deal with many of the same issues and used for applications outside traditional epistemology. New Waves in Epistemology reflects these changes by letting up-and-coming scholars describe the current trends as well as discussing the prospects for future development.
Author: J. Aguilar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-29
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0230304257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each one has already made important contributions to the philosophy of action and cognate areas. The chapters reflect their research and make a significant contribution to some debate in the field.
Author: Patrick Grim
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780262071345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "
Author: Peter Achinstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 019506755X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together six published and two new essays by the noted philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. It represents the culmination of his examination of methodological issues that arise in nineteenth-century physics. He focuses on the philosophical problem of how, if at all, it is possible to confirm scientific hypotheses that postulate 'unobservables' such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. This question is one that not only was of great interest to nineteenth-century physicists and methodologists, but continues to occupy philosophers of science up to the present day. The essays in this volume deal with this vexing problem as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Achinstein shows that the most important issue raised by these three cases concerns the legitimacy of introducing hypotheses that invoke "unobservables". If science is to be empirical, can such hypotheses be employed? How, if at all, is it possible to confirm them?; Achinstein here assesses the philosophical validity of nineteenth-century and modern answers to these questions and presents and defends his own solutions
Author: Vincent F. Hendricks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521857895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an analysis of the meeting point between mainstream and formal theories of knowledge.
Author: T. Brooks
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0230305881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.
