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Reals By Abstraction. An Inquiry About Epistemic Economy In Mathematics: Volume Ii - The Real Numbers

by Marco Panza

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 In doing so, original results and insights are offered, such as a faithful and still consistent rephrasing of Fregeâ€™s definitions of reals, and an original and epistemically highly economical definition of real numbers as bicimal developments.
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Reals By Abstraction. An Inquiry About Epistemic Economy In Mathematics: Volume I - Epistemic Economy And The Natural Numbers

by Marco Panza

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 This first of a two-volume book discusses the process of conceptual recasting of mathematical contents under a new and more convenient form, complying with the ideal of epistemic economy (expressing the same content by appealing to fewer or minimal conceptual resources).
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Induction, Science, And Morality

by Seungbae Park

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 In addition to that, it argues against the coherentist justification of induction, refuting Hume's initial problem of induction and develops counter-inductions to defend scientific realism from pessimists and advocates a realist theory of scientific development.
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On Mathematical Explanations Of Empirical Phenomena - Indispensability, Number Theory, And Mathematical Counterfactual Dependence

by Lars Arthur Tump

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 The second part focuses on the possibility of bringing out the explanatory role of mathematics counterfactually, and shows that, due to the necessary nature of mathematics, any proposal should take into account discussions on the knowledge and the structure of numbers.
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Numbers As Cognitive Tools - An Empirically Informed Nominalistic Account Of The Nature Of Numbers

by Cesar Frederico Dos Santos

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 This books offers a novel account of the nature of numbers firmly grounded in results from numerical cognition and the philosophy of mathematics.
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Projective Simulation In Action - Quantum-Mechanical Perspectives On The Problem Of Agency

by Hans J. Briegel e Thomas Muller

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 This open access monograph presents an in-depth study of the problem of how agency fits into the physical world. In addition, the authors highlight the role of agency in Quantum Mechanics itself, recently stressed by the Bayesian-inspired interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, QBism.
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Proofs And Research Programmes: Lakatos At 100

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 November 2022 saw the centenary of Lakatosâ€™s birth, and the event was marked by an international conference held at the LSE â€" where Lakatos made his career after he had emigrated from Hungary to England.
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The Heuristic View - Logic, Mathematics, And Science

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 This volume will be of particular interest to scholars in the philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic, as well as to scientists engaged in theoretical inquiry and graduate students working in these or related areas.
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The Social Fabric Of Understanding

by Federica Isabella Malfatti

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 We understand more together, by joining forces, than we would understand alone. When we understand something and come to see things clearly, it is probably because someone else has taught us, enlightened us, shared his or her perspective with us, or shaped our environment so that our attempts to make sense of the world were likely to succeed.
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Paradoxes Between Truth And Proof

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 The truth-theoretic tradition stems from Alfred Tarski's solution to the semantic paradoxes, while the proof-theoretic tradition dates back to Dag Prawitz's analysis of set-theoretic paradoxes in terms of structural proof theory.
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Markus Gabrielâ€™S New Realism

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 This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabrielâ€™s version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.
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Many-Valued Semantics And Modal Logics: Essays In Honour Of Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev

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 This volume is a collection of essays related to the work of Professor Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev, a distinguished Russian logician and philosopher renowned for his expertise in many-valued and modal logics.
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Integrative Promise - Explanatory Virtues In Biology

by Charles H. Pence

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 This book offers a new approach to the way in which biologists evaluate both the explanations they give of biological phenomena and those they would like to pursue. Departing from current scholarship on explanation, it draws out a cluster of virtues which unifies some biological explanations and, in turn, captures part of what makes the life sciences distinctive: integrative promise. With case studies drawn from a wide variety of historical and empirical domains (such as big data biology, model organisms, and natural history), as well as theoretical connections to a number of other areas in the philosophy of science (including mechanism, science and values, and scientific modeling), this work creates a new lens which helps us understand why contemporary life science takes the structure that it does. It provides insight for readers in philosophy and history of science, as well as biologists interested in the theoretical structure and future of their field.
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Beyond Nature And Nurture - Perspectives On Human Multidimensionality

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 This book gathers several of the world’s leading scholars in the nature vs. nurture debate, offering a timely reconsideration of the dynamic interactions between physical, chemical, biological, social, and cultural factors that shape human multidimensionality. Emphasizing this multidimensionality, this edited volume seeks to bridge the divide between biology and social theory—two research communities that have too often overlooked each other. These disciplines, despite being central to understanding human nature, have long operated in isolation. While some animal species exhibit higher degrees of phenotypic plasticity in specific traits, humans stand out as the most plastic species in both their neurological and sociocultural systems. This plasticity leads the contributors of this book to move beyond both biological reductionism and the blank-slate hypothesis. While biology undoubtedly plays a role in shaping and stabilizing human social and cultural processes, it does so only within the framework of an inherently social environment—one shaped by historically contingent and socially constructed realities, such as values, codes, and cultural perceptions. More importantly, cultural structures and social interactions actively shape and transform certain biological features that were once considered immutable. This book lays the groundwork for a productive dialogue among biologists, psychologists, social theorists, and philosophers. It also highlights some of the moral and political consequences of different perspectives within the nature vs. nurture debate. Through updated scientific and philosophical theorizing, the chapters in this book aim to overcome, once and for all, the simplistic yet persistent opposition between nature and nurture, offering a far more complex and dynamic—yet richer and epistemologically manageable—picture of the human being.
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Indeterminacy, Vagueness, And Truth - The Boolean Many-Valued Approach

by Ken Akiba

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 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 algebra is the 2-element Boolean algebra;
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Dispositional Reality - A Novel Approach To Power Ontology And Metaphysics

by Lorenzo Azzano

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 the novelty lies in the fact that the account, unlike most alternatives on the market, does not require the reification of objects, facts, properties, nor their dispositional essences â€" and is in fact compatible with a far more deflationary approach to dispositions, while still being true to the non-Humean spirit of the proposal.
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Perspectives On Deduction: Contemporary Studies In The Philosophy, History And Formal Theories Of Deduction

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 The variety of distinct approaches exemplified by the single chapters allows for a dialogue between perspectives that, usually, barely communicate with each other. The contributions concern (in a possibly intertwined way) three major perspectives in logic: philosophical, historical, formal.
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Truth In Fiction - Rethinking Its Logic

by John Woods

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 This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices.
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Scientific Realism And Laws Of Nature: A Metaphysics Of Causal Powers

by Michel Ghins

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 This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective.
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Special Objects - Social, Fictional, Modal, And Non-Existent

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 This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology. The chosen ontological fields are, for this purpose, ontologies that essentially involve human social practices such as intentional objects, fictions, mental illnesses or social entities.
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Conceptual Principles Of Natural Philosophy - An Investigation Into Time, Space, And The Laws Of Nature

by Gal Yehezkel

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 This book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a complementary research project to the empirical exploration of nature.
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Special Objects - Social, Fictional, Modal, And Non-Existent

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 This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology. The chosen ontological fields are, for this purpose, ontologies that essentially involve human social practices such as intentional objects, fictions, mental illnesses or social entities.
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Paradoxes Between Truth And Proof

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 The truth-theoretic tradition stems from Alfred Tarski's solution to the semantic paradoxes, while the proof-theoretic tradition dates back to Dag Prawitz's analysis of set-theoretic paradoxes in terms of structural proof theory.
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Markus Gabriel'S New Realism

~~171,59€~~ 154,43€ 10% OFF

 This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabrielâ€™s version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.
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