Foundations of the Formal Sciences: The History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences: v. 4

ISBN-13: 9781904987291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 300 str.

Benedikt Lowe;Volker Peckhaus;Thoralf Rasch

Opis

This volume takes a reflective position with respect to the conferenceseries "Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) and asks:* What are the Formal Sciences?* Can we develop a theoretical classification of the sciences thatjuxtaposes the formal sciences to the natural sciences, social sciences,and humanities? Can we do this solely by identifying common methodologicalfeatures?* Can we identify changes of the notion of formal sciences over time?How were the areas that we now conceived as the "Foundations of the FormalSciences" classified throughout history?Investigating the "History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences" to findanswers to an array of questions with this wide scope, you need anenthusiastic group of researchers interested in going beyond thetraditional boundaries of their subjects covering at once thephilosophical, historical and logical issues at hand, like the authors ofthis volume.The papers in this volume stand witness to our success in touching thementioned questions. It will be of interest to philosophers,sociologists, historians, and logicians, and covers many aspects of thehistory of the formal sciences from the Bronze Age to the early XXIstcentury.