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Télécharger le livre : Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth
Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth
Ken Akiba
This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainly a Boolean logic, and the smallest (non-degenerate) Boolean...

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Parution : 2024-10-28
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Télécharger le livre : The Theory of Gödel
The Theory of Gödel
Carlo Cellucci
This book presents Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics. Results are stated in the form most relevant for use in the philosophy of mathematics. An appendix considers their...

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Parution : 2022-11-21
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Télécharger le livre : A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
Ralph Jenkins
This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to...

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Parution : 2022-09-26
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Télécharger le livre : The Asymmetric Nature of Time
The Asymmetric Nature of Time
Vincent Grandjean
This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas...

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Parution : 2022-09-21
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Télécharger le livre : Knowing What Things Are
Knowing What Things Are
André J. Abath
?This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The...

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Parution : 2022-08-08
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Télécharger le livre : Current Trends in Philosophy of Science
Current Trends in Philosophy of Science
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of...

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Parution : 2022-07-25
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Télécharger le livre : Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology
Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology
Lino Camprubí , Javier Pérez-Jara , Gustavo E. Romero
This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the...

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Parution : 2022-06-01
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Télécharger le livre : Philosophical Perspectives in Quantum Chemistry
Philosophical Perspectives in Quantum Chemistry
Sebastian Fortin , Olimpia Lombardi , Juan Camilo Martínez González
This book explores the philosophy and the foundations of quantum chemistry. It features chapters written by experts in the field. The contributions analyze quantum chemistry as a discipline, in particular, its relation with both chemistry and physics from the viewpoint...

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Parution : 2022-05-16
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Télécharger le livre : Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen
Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen
Mark A. Brown , Andrew J. I. Jones , Paul Mcnamara
The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and...

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Parution : 2022-04-14
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Télécharger le livre : Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
Alessio Santelli
This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism. The collected essays show how contemporary Ockhamism can impact areas of research such as semantics, metaphysics and also the philosophy of science. In addition, the volume hosts one historian of Medieval...

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Parution : 2022-03-30
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Télécharger le livre : Pyrrhonism Past and Present
Pyrrhonism Past and Present
Diego E. Machuca
This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the philosophical scene of the Hellenistic and Imperial age, but it also had a...

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Parution : 2022-03-28
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Télécharger le livre : The Making of Mathematics
The Making of Mathematics
Carlo Cellucci
This book offers an alternative to current philosophy of mathematics: heuristic philosophy of mathematics. In accordance with the heuristic approach, the philosophy of mathematics must concern itself with the making of mathematics and in particular with mathematical...

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Parution : 2022-03-07
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Télécharger le livre : Sextus Empiricus' Neo-Pyrrhonism
Sextus Empiricus' Neo-Pyrrhonism
Plínio Junqueira Smith
This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for...

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Parution : 2022-03-01
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Télécharger le livre : Logic Without Gaps or Gluts
Logic Without Gaps or Gluts
Benjamin Alan Burgis
This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he believes classical solutions fare better than non-classical ones with...

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Parution : 2022-02-25
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Télécharger le livre : Time, Identity and the Self: Essays on Metaphysics
Time, Identity and the Self: Essays on Metaphysics
Brian Garrett , Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged...

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Parution : 2022-02-21
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Télécharger le livre : Contingent A Priori Truths
Contingent A Priori Truths
Marco Ruffino
This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke, the author also presents a new approach to these truths. The first part of the book details the many...

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Parution : 2022-02-14
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Télécharger le livre : On Hilbert's Sixth Problem
On Hilbert's Sixth Problem
Newton C. A. Da Costa , Francisco Antonio Doria
This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico–canonical formalism. Throughout the text, the investigation stresses that classical mechanics in its Lagrangian formulation is the formal backbone of theoretical physics. The...

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Parution : 2022-01-25
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Télécharger le livre : The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics
The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics
Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
The main aim of this book is to discuss fundamental developments on the question of being in Western and African philosophy using analytic metaphysics as a framework. It starts with the two orthodox responses to the question of being, namely, the subject-verb-object...

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Parution : 2021-05-04
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Télécharger le livre : Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics
Helen De Cruz , Johan De Smedt
A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by...

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Parution : 2021-05-04
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Télécharger le livre : Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
Sean Allen-Hermanson , Anton Killin
This volume explores various themes at the intersection of archaeology and philosophy: inference and theory; interdisciplinary connections; cognition, language and normativity; and ethical issues. Showcasing this heterogeneity, its scope ranges from the method of...

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Parution : 2021-04-26
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