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The Foundational Debate: Complexity and Constructivity in Mathematics and Physics
ISBN: 9780792337379 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Constructibility and complexity play central roles in recent research in computer science, mathematics and physics. For example, scientists are investigating the complexity of computer programs, constructive proofs in mathematics and the randomness of physical processes. But there are different approaches to the explication of these concepts. This volume presents important research on the state of this discussion, especially as it refers to quantum mechanics.
This foundational debate' in computer science, mathematics and physics was already fully developed in 1930 in the Vienna Circle.... Constructibility and complexity play central roles in recent research in computer science, mathematics and physics. For example, scientists are invest...
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Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9780792341628 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship...
Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that...
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576,96 zł |
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Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology
ISBN: 9780792342250 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. 'Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. In each volume, a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand. CQntributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out, however, and are indeed actively encouraged...
Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. 'Australasi...
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384,63 zł |
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Logic and Scientific Methods: Volume One of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995
ISBN: 9780792343837 / Angielski / Twarda / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
The invited lectures published in the two volumes demonstrate much of what goes on in the fields of the Congress and give the state of the art of current research. The two volumes cover the traditional... This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the Tenth International Congress of Lo...
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769,29 zł |
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Structures and Norms in Science: Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995
ISBN: 9780792343844 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the field. In particular, it gives a coherent picture of foundational research into the various sciences, both natural and social. In addition, it has special interest items such as symposia on interfaces between logic and methodology, semantics and semiotics, as well as updates on the current state of the field in Eastern Europe and the Far East.
This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most p...
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Mind Out of Matter: Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition
ISBN: 9780792351030 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Mind Out of Matter aims to transform the way we think about consciousness and the physical world. Unlike many contemporary volumes, it develops a robust and philosophically satisfying account of the mind/body relationship without doing violence to fundamental physics. It expunges popular but ludicrous assumptions about the in principle' capabilities of cognizers and, with the help of tools from mathematics and scientific fields, supplants flawed notions of representation, function, and mental state with objective and physically grounded alternatives. It debunks quantum theories of...
Mind Out of Matter aims to transform the way we think about consciousness and the physical world. Unlike many contemporary volumes, it develo...
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Life - The Outburst of Life in the Human Sphere: Scientific Philosophy / Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life. Book II
ISBN: 9780792351429 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times. Now they are poised for a pivotal alliance. Science has abandoned the mechanistic model of nature. Philosophy has broken through the tight, traditional circle of conceptualisation, intellectualistic preconceptions and cognitive presuppositions. The two now meet to focus on the palpitating, fluctuating stream of nature/life. Their traditional prejudices dispersed under the pressure of new evidence, philosophy/phenomenology of life and the sciences of life meet in the Archimedean point of the human creative...
Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times. Now they are poised for a pivotal alliance. Science has abandoned ...
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First-Order Modal Logic
ISBN: 9780792353355 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Fitting and Mendelsohn present a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic, together with some propositional background. They adopt throughout a threefold approach. Semantically, they use possible world models; the formal proof machinery is tableaus; and full philosophical discussions are provided of the way that technical developments bear on well-known philosophical problems.
The book covers quantification itself, including the difference between actualist and possibilist quantifiers; equality, leading to a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle; the notion of... Fitting and Mendelsohn present a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic, together with some propositional background. They adopt throughout a t...
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884,70 zł |
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Can That Be Right?: Essays on Experiment, Evidence, and Science
ISBN: 9780792354642 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion. In short, he argues that science is a reasonable enterprise.
He begins with detailed studies of four episodes from the history of modern physics: (1) the early attempts to detect gravity waves, (2) how the physics community decided that a proposed new elementary particle, 17-keV neutrino, did not exist, (3) a sequence of experiments on K meson decay, and (4) the origins of the Fifth Force... In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental ev...
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Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery
ISBN: 9780792354772 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual identity of optimal strategies of pure discovery with optimal deductive strategies. Questions to Nature, of course, must include...
Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines s...
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Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
ISBN: 9780792354970 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and Pisa, as well as in the University of Constance, where they helped to build a strong cultural...
The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of t...
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The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780792355489 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The...
The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and method...
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461,56 zł |
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Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships
ISBN: 9780792357018 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of the body, natural law...
Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for ...
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Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II
ISBN: 9780792357438 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, featuring essays addressing truth, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, with a substantial representation of analytically schooled Nietzsche scholars. This collection offers a dynamic articulation of the differing strengths of Anglo-American analytic and contemporary European approaches to philosophy, with translations from European specialists, notably Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, Paul Valadier, and Walther Ch. Zimmerli. This broad collection also features a...
Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, featuring essays addressing tr...
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Metadebates on Science: The Blue Book of "Einstein Meets Magritte"
ISBN: 9780792357629 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How do scientists approach science? Scientists, sociologists and philosophers were asked to write on this intriguing problem and to display their results at the International Congress Einstein Meets Magritte'. The outcome of their effort can be found in this rather unique book, presenting all kinds of different views on science. Quantum mechanics is a discipline which deserves and receives special attention in this book, mainly because it is fascinating and, hence, appeals to the general public. This book not only contains articles on the introductory level, it also provides new insights and...
How do scientists approach science? Scientists, sociologists and philosophers were asked to write on this intriguing problem and to display their resu...
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Hermeneutics and Science
ISBN: 9780792357988 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new research field, the hermeneutics of science emerged based upon the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Gadamer.
A dialogue between philosophers and scientists begins in this volume on hermeneutic approaches to physics, biology, ethology, mathematics and cognitive science. Scientific... Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific kn...
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The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology: A Study of Theoretical Reason
ISBN: 9780792358527 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the...
The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them,...
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Causation and Laws of Nature
ISBN: 9780792359142 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things....
Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature...
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Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences
ISBN: 9780792365600 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Science constructs its objects": is this a metaphor? It does not necessarily mean anyway that the real does not pre-exist. Only that in the final instance it is the Other, of which we know neither the limits nor the figure and to which we only have access through the constructions we make of it. Or, in semiotic terms borrowed from Charles S. Peirce, the world is the 'dynamic object' that intervenes in science only through the 'immediate objects' that manifest themselves in signs. And even then the choice of the term 'immediate' is not entirely felicitous: it would be better to talk of...
"Science constructs its objects": is this a metaphor? It does not necessarily mean anyway that the real does not pre-exist. Only that in the final ins...
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The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge: A View from the Limit
ISBN: 9780792369295 / Angielski / Twarda / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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...
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 Do...
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576,96 zł |
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