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The Handbook Of Intuitions - Perspectives From Global Philosophy

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 It brings together works by the best specialists working on intuitions in five different traditions: the South Asian tradition, the Chinese tradition, the Japanese tradition, the Arabo-Islamic tradition, and the Western tradition with, in this last case, a focus on philosophy of language and on philosophy of mathematics.
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An Intellectual History Of Science In The Renaissance - Part I: Cultural & Fundamental Frameworks

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 This first of a two-part volume (Book I) deals with a unit intellectual cultural history of science in the Renaissance within fundamental frameworks.
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An Intellectual History Of Science In The Renaissance - Part Ii: Cultural, Fundamental & Technological Frameworks

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 Taking into account the excellence of the essays, the book covers several branches and disciplines in science & technology, e.g., theoretical mathematics and the empirical work, machinery and mechanisms, stored information, transportation, inquiring methods in history and historiography of science & technology.
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Empirical Reason And Sensory Experience

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 The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs;
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Phenomenology And Phaneroscopy: A Neglected Chapter In The History Of Ideas

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 This book shows, for the first time in its full spectrum, the interconnectedness and topicality of two historically and philosophically significant developments of philosophical theories of the study of mind: that of phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and phaneroscopy of Charles S.
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Alfred Tarski On Scientific Semantics

by David Hitchcock e Magda Stroinska

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 This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became "the man who defined truth". Alfred Tarski’s classic monograph on truth became known internationally in 1935, when he presented its ideas in German at an international conference and collaborated in preparation of its German translation. This book provides the first English translation of the Polish version of Tarski’s conference paper, which for purposes of comparison is printed side-by-side with a new exact English translation of the German version. It offers for the first time a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the paper, and for the first time a description and analysis of the discussion of the paper immediately after its presentation. It discusses 22 substantive differences between the two versions. The book also extracts from recently discovered correspondence about the German translation of the truth monograph how it was decided to produce such a translation, the process of vetting and changing the translation, changes requested by Tarski, objections to the appeal to intuition in the Polish original (supported by a list of those appeals with their replacements in the German and English translations), other translational issues, discrepancies other than those concerning appeals to intuition between the Polish original and its German translation, the "Keystone cops" saga of Tarski’s off-prints, and monetary matters. It lists from Tarski’s journal his skiing, mountaineering and tourist trips in 1935, and describes his companions on those trips. An electronic supplement translates or summarizes the complete correspondence, with comments, and includes images from Tarski’s journal of his itineraries of his 1935 trips, with the editors'' explanatory comments.
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Theory Of Plane Area At The Crossroads - Philosophical, Historical, And Logical Perspectives

by Abel Lassalle Casanave, Eduardo N. Giovannini e Edward Hermann Haeusler

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 This book explores a cluster of philosophical, historical, and logical problems concerning the foundations of the theory of plane area in elementary geometry. The motivation of this study is a notable geometrical proposition known as De Zolt’s postulate, which asserts that a polygon cannot be equal in area to a proper polygonal part. The book is the first systematic investigation of the philosophical and foundational significance of this proposition, which can also be described as the "fundamental theorem" of the theory of plane area.This volume provides a comparative study of Euclid’s development of the theory of area in the Elements and its modern reinterpretation in Hilbert’s classical monograph Foundations of Geometry. It connects the historical reflections on De Zolt’s postulate with the nineteenth-century program of providing a purely geometrical foundation for Euclidean geometry, uncovering a rich array of intertwined conceptual problems. It also shifts the perspective and provides a logical analysis of this geometrical postulate within an original development of the abstract theory of magnitudes, called compatible magnitudes. Finally, it extends the previous formal treatment of De Zolt’s postulate to the case of three-dimensional geometry by producing a type system for polyhedral geometrical mereology. The innovative combination of philosophical, historical, and logical perspectives results in a novel discussion of a fascinating problem at the crossroads of (late) nineteenth-century geometry. This volume will interest readers in the fields of history and philosophy of mathematics, logic, and formal philosophy.
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Phenomenology And Phaneroscopy: A Neglected Chapter In The History Of Ideas

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 This book shows, for the first time in its full spectrum, the interconnectedness and topicality of two historically and philosophically significant developments of philosophical theories of the study of mind: that of phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and phaneroscopy of Charles S.
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Architecture And Archaeology Of Modern Logic - Studies Dedicated To Göran Sundholm

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 This book honors the original and influential work by Göran Sundholm in the fields of the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics. Borne from two conferences held in Paris and Leiden on the occasion of Göran Sundholm’s retirement in 2019, the contributions collected in this volume represent work from leading logicians and philosophers. Reflecting Sundholm’s contributions to the history and philosophy of logic, this book is divided into two parts: the architecture and archaeology of logic.The essays collected in the ‘architecture’ section cover primarily the systematic approach to basic logical concepts taken by Sundholm, including type theory, epistemic assumptions, and notions of consequence. The ‘archaeology’ section includes contributions focused on Sundholm’s contributions to the history of philosophy and logic. Enclosing these two sections are, on the one end, autobiographical remarks of Sundholm''s and, on the other, a paper on cooking and philosophy, reflectinganother of Sundholm''s passions in life. This book is of interest to logicians, philosophers, mathematicians, and computer scientists.
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Empirical Reason And Sensory Experience

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 The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs;
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Irrationality, Transcendence And The Circle-Squaring Problem - An Annotated Translation Of J. H. Lambert’S Vorläufige Kenntnisse And Mémoire

by Eduardo Dorrego Lopez e Elias Fuentes Guillen

~~158,99€~~ 143,09€ 10% OFF

 This publication, now in its second edition, includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) written in the 1760s: Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques. The translations, as in the first edition, are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert’s contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself.Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.
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Homage To Evangelista Torricelli'S Opera Geometrica 1644-2024 - Text, Transcription, Commentaries And Selected Essays As New Historical Insights

by Jean Dhombres, Paolo Bussotti, Patricia Radelet De Grave e Raffaele Pisano

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 Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients'' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli''s monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 380 years since its publication (1644-2024). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean-and-Galilean scientist to modern readers.Opera geometrica deals with Motion & Mechanics and Geometry & Infinitesimals. In quibus Archimedis doctrina Torricelli also presents his mechanical principle of equilibrium - the foundation of the modern Principle of Virtual Work/Static. This outstanding source and research book spotlights the relevance and originality of Torricelli’s Mechanics, and is the first and most profound analysis of the Opera geometrica to date. The historical study is achieved in extensive Introduction, 5 Essays and an accurate Transcription of Opera geometrica with parallel side-by-side text, including substantive explicative notes. The book is an accessible avenue to understanding this work by leading authorities who offer much-needed insights into the relationship Physics-Mathematics, Mechanics and Fundamentals. It appeals to historians, epistemologists and scientists.
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Meaning And Justification. An Internalist Theory Of Meaning

by Gabriele Usberti

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 This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky’s internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality. In the first part a theoretical notion of justification for a sentence A is defined, by induction on the complexity of A; intuitively, justifications are conceived as cognitive states of a particular kind. The main source of inspiration for this part is Heyting’s explanation of the intuitionistic meaning of logical constants.In the second part the theory is applied to the solution of several foundational problems in the theory of meaning and epistemology, such as Frege’s puzzle, Mates’ puzzle about synonymy, the paradox of analysis, Kripke’s puzzle about belief, the de re/de dicto distinction, the specific/non-specific distinction, Gettier’s problems, the paradox of knowability, and the characterization oftruth. On a more general philosophical level, throughout the book the author develops a tight critique of the neo-verificationism of Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf, and defends a mentalist interpretation of intuitionism.
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Cosmology In The Early Modern Age: A Web Of Ideas

by Brunello Lotti e Paolo Bussotti

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 This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts.
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Semantics And Truth

by Jan Wolenski

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 The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s.
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Peirce And Husserl: Mutual Insights On Logic, Mathematics And Cognition

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 The second part is on logic, its Chapters dedicated to the topics from Peirceâ€™s Existential Graphs and the philosophy of notation to Husserlâ€™s notions of pure logic and transcendental logic.
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Irrationality, Transcendence And The Circle-Squaring Problem - An Annotated Translation Of J. H. Lambert’S Vorläufige Kenntnisse And Mémoire

by Eduardo Dorrego Lopez e Elias Fuentes Guillen

158,99€ + 10% CARD

 This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728â€"1777) written in the 1760s: VorlÃ¤ufige Kenntnisse fÃ¼r die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and MÃ©moire sur quelques propriÃ©tÃ©s remarquables des quantitÃ©s transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques.
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Cosmology In The Early Modern Age: A Web Of Ideas

by Brunello Lotti e Paolo Bussotti

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 This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts.
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Thinking And Calculating - Essays In Logic, Its History And Its Philosophical Applications In Honour Of Massimo Mugnai

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 This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field.
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Thinking And Calculating - Essays In Logic, Its History And Its Philosophical Applications In Honour Of Massimo Mugnai

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 This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field.
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Awareness In Logic And Epistemology - A Conceptual Schema And Logical Study Of The Underlying Main Epistemic Concepts

by Claudia Fernandez-Fernandez

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 This book creates a conceptual schema that acts as a correlation between Epistemology and Epistemic Logic.
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Mathematics, Logic, And Their Philosophies - Essays In Honour Of Mohammad Ardeshir

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 The first category includes papers on non-classical logics, including intuitionistic logic, constructive logic, basic logic, and substructural logic.
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Knowledge At The Boundaries

by Nicholas Rescher

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 The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author's work over decades. They join in exploring the lay of the land at the boundaries of knowledge. The first chapters address basic facts regarding the conceptualization of knowledge.
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Constructive Semantics - Meaning In Between Phenomenology And Constructivism

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 This edited book brings together research work in the field of constructive semantics with scholarship on the phenomenological foundations of logic and mathematics.
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