This work is a crash course on argument, reasoning, and logical method honoring the Swedish poet and Bishop of Lund, Esaias Tegnir, who once said: "The words and thoughts of men are born together: To speak obscurely is to think obscurely." (Philosophy)

Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in this field. We hear their views aim, scope, use, the future direction and how their work fits in these respects.

Et spadestik dybere pr]senterer de 10 filosofiske discipliner kendt fra dk4s frste udsendelsesr]kke om Tankens magt. Bogen kan bruges som supplement til tv-serien og sigter p l]gmand og studerende, der gerne vil tage et spadestik dybere i hverdagen og videnskaben. Med bidrag af Adam Diderichsen, Vincent F. Hendricks, Peter C. Kj]rgaard, Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, Stig Andur Pedersen Hans Siggaard Jensen, Jesper Ryberg, Lars Sandbeck, Peter Sande, Frederik Stjernfelt, Dan Zahavi.

Filosofien er i virkeligheden i den grad som virkeligheden er i filosofien. Til tider kan det dog v]re sv]rt nok at se skoven for bare tr]er. Her er 30,1 klummer med filosofi p tv]rs, hvor Vincent F. Hendricks tager et tema op fra hverdagen og, bde indsigtsfuldt og underholdende, endevender det fra en logisk og filosofisk vinkel. Nogle af klummerne er kendt fra dk4s tv-serie af samme navn.

Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in probability and statistics. We hear their views on the fields, aims, scopes, the future direction of research and how their work fits in these respects. Interviews with Nick Bingham, Luc Bovens, Terrence L. Fine, Haim Gaifman, Donald Gillies, James Hawthorne, Carl Hoefer, James M. Joyce, Joseph B. Kadane Isaac Levi, D.H. Mellor, Patrick Suppes, Jan von Plato, Carl Wagner, Sandy Zabell.

hiS volume in the Synthese Library Series is the result of a conference T held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, October 31st-November 1st, 1997. The aim was to provide a forum within which philosophers, math ematicians, logicians and historians of mathematics could exchange ideas pertaining to the historical and philosophical development of proof theory. Hence the conference was called Proof Theory: History and Philosophical Significance. To quote from the conference abstract: Proof theory was developed as part of Hilberts Programme. According to Hilberts Programme one could provide...

This is this, this ain't something else, this is this -Robert De Niro, Deerhunter his book may to some extent be viewed as the continuation of my T Doctoral thesis Epistemology, Methodology and Reliability. The dissertation was, first of all, a methodological study of the reliable performance of the AGM-axioms (Alchourr6n, Gardenfors and Makin son) of belief revision. Second of all the dissertation included the first steps toward an epistemology for the limiting convergence of knowledge for scientific inquiry methods of both discovery and assessment. The idea of methodological reliability as...

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...

Problemet er kendt som forordsparadokset ... Paradokset kan ramme enhver, der skriver et forord, ogsa nar forordet som her, er en klumme. Fortsat: Flere klummer og kladder er en ny klummesamling af Vincent F. Hendricks, professor i formel filosofi pa Kobenhavns Universitet og Columbia Universitet i New York og vaert pa dr2's Gal eller Genial og Kontrovers

Alle mennesker er i stand til at udf re korrekte logiske slutninger, men vi g r os sj ldent klart, hvordan vi b rer os ad. Det kan logikkenfort lle os, og derfor spiller den en s vigtig rolle i mange modernevidenskaber. Moderne element r logik l seren gennem den moderne logik og denssystemer - fra klassisk udsagnslogik for f rste ordens pr dikatslogik tilmodallogik, herunder aletisk, temporal og epistemisk logik. Bogen inde-holder ligeledes kapitler af mere avanceret karakter om formelle strukturer, modelteori og metateoretisk analyse af udsagnslogik samt f rsteordenslogik.Bogen er...