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Author: Peter Hylton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0199286353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of Bertrand Russell has a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays in this text recapture aspects of Russell's philosophical vision during his most influential period, the two decades following his break with Idealism in 1899.
Author: Ryan O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1107038324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis graduate-level text gives a thorough overview of the analysis of Boolean functions, beginning with the most basic definitions and proceeding to advanced topics.
Author: Peter McLaughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-18
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1139428535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized? What do we commit ourselves to when we give and take functional explanations in the life sciences and the social sciences? McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the post-war literature on functional explanation. What Functions Explain provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.
Author: Sean Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1108604536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuine's set theory, New Foundations, has often been treated as an anomaly in the history and philosophy of set theory. In this book, Sean Morris shows that it is in fact well-motivated, emerging in a natural way from the early development of set theory. Morris introduces and explores the notion of set theory as explication: the view that there is no single correct axiomatization of set theory, but rather that the various axiomatizations all serve to explicate the notion of set and are judged largely according to pragmatic criteria. Morris also brings out the important interplay between New Foundations, Quine's philosophy of set theory, and his philosophy more generally. We see that his early technical work in logic foreshadows his later famed naturalism, with his philosophy of set theory playing a crucial role in his primary philosophical project of clarifying our conceptual scheme and specifically its logical and mathematical components.
Author: Halsey Royden
Publisher: Pearson Modern Classics for Advanced Mathematics Series
Published: 2017-02-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780134689494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is designed for graduate-level courses in real analysis. Real Analysis, 4th Edition, covers the basic material that every graduate student should know in the classical theory of functions of a real variable, measure and integration theory, and some of the more important and elementary topics in general topology and normed linear space theory. This text assumes a general background in undergraduate mathematics and familiarity with the material covered in an undergraduate course on the fundamental concepts of analysis.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Griffin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-23
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780521636346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematics in and behind Russell's logicism, and its reception / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Russell's philosophical background / Nicholas Griffin -- Russell and Moore, 1898-1905 / Richard L. Cartwright -- Russell and Frege / Michael Beaney -- Bertrand Russell's logicism / Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine -- The theory of descriptions / Peter Hylton -- Russell's substitutional theory / Gregory Landini -- The theory of types / Alasdair Urquhart -- Russell's method of analysis / Paul Hager -- Russell's neutral monism / R.E. Tully -- The metaphysics of logical atomism / Bernard Linksy -- Russell's structuralism and the absolute description of the world / William Demopoulos -- From knowledge by acquaintance to knowledge by causation / Thomas Baldwin -- Russell, experience, and the roots of science / A.C. Grayling -- Bertrand Russell: moral philosopher or unphilosophical moralist? / Charles R. Pidgen.
Author: J. V. Deshpande
Publisher: Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781842651896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an introduction to higher mathematics for students. Starting with a discussion of real numbers and functions, the text introduces standard topics of differential and integral calculus together with their applications such as differential equations, numerical analysis, and approximation methods.
Author: Mario BUNGE
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1983-08-31
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9789027715111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning. This must be done because epistemology has been pronounced dead, and methodology nonexisting; and because, when acknowledged at all, they are often misplaced. 1. DESCRIPTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY The following problems are typical of classical epistemology: (i) What can we know? (ii) How do we know? (iii) What, if anything, does the subject contribute to his knowledge? (iv) What is truth? (v) How can we recognize truth? (vi) What is probable knowledge as opposed to certain knowledge? (vii) Is there a priori knowledge, and if so of what? (viii) How are knowledge and action related? (ix) How are knowledge and language related? (x) What is the status of concepts and propositions? In some guise or other all of these problems are still with us. To be sure, if construed as a demand for an inventory of knowledge the first problem is not a philosophical one any more than the question 'What is there?'. But it is a genuine philosophical problem if construed thus: 'What kinds of object are knowable-and which ones are not?' However, it is doubtful that philosophy can offer a correct answer to this problem without the help of science and technology. For example, only these disciplines can tell us whether man can know not only phenomena (appearances) but also noumena (things in themselves or self-existing objects).
Author: Johan F.A.K. van Benthem
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2010-12-17
Total Pages: 1169
ISBN-13: 0444537279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe logical study of language is becoming more interdisciplinary, playing a role in fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and game theory. This new edition, written by the leading experts in the field, presents an overview of the latest developments at the interface of logic and linguistics as well as a historical perspective. It is divided into three parts covering Frameworks, General Topics and Descriptive Themes. - Completely revised and updated - includes over 25% new material - Discusses the interface between logic and language - Many of the authors are creators or active developers of the theories
