The Great Prostate Hoax
The Great Prostate Hoax

Author: Richard J. Ablin

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1137278749

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Reveals how fear-based and inaccurate testing is resulting in unnecessary high-risk surgeries, arguing that the PSA test was never intended for prostate cancer screening.

Scientific Progress
Scientific Progress

Author: Craig Dilworth

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1402063539

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Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem, Dilworth provides the solution. In the fourth edition of this highly original book, Craig Dilworth answers the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth’s Perspectivist conception of science covers both bases with a concept of scientific progress based on both rationalism and empiricism.

Probability Theory
Probability Theory

Author: Vincent F. Hendricks

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-06-30

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780792369523

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A collection of papers presented at the conference on Probability Theory - Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science, University of Roskilde, Denmark, September 16-18, 1998. Since the measure theoretical definition of probability was proposed by Kolmogorov, probability theory has developed into a mature mathematical theory. It is today a fruitful field of mathematics that has important applications in philosophy, science, engineering, and many other areas. The measure theoretical definition of probability and its axioms, however, are not without their problems; some of them even puzzled Kolmogorov. This book sheds light on some recent discussions of the problems in probability theory and their history, analysing their philosophical and mathematical significance, and the role pf mathematical probability theory in other sciences.

Blameworthy Belief
Blameworthy Belief

Author: Nikolaj Nottelmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-18

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1402059612

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Believing the wrong thing can have drastic consequences. The question of when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief goes to the root of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. This book explores the conditions under which someone may be deemed blameworthy for holding a particular belief, drawing on contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship.

Attitudes and Changing Contexts
Attitudes and Changing Contexts

Author: Robert van Rooij

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1402041772

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In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between philosophical analyses of intentionality and reference, and formal semantic theories of discourse representation and context change. The relation between belief change and the semantic analyses of conditional sentences and evidential (knowledge) and buletic (desire) propositional attitudes is discussed extensively.

(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein
(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein

Author: A. Biletzki

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 940070822X

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This book tells the story of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. It will prove valuable to philosophers, scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy.