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Principles Of Truth - (Conference "Truth, Necessity And Provability", Which Was Held In Leuven, Belgium, From 18 To 20 November 1999)

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 Principles of Truth - 'Truth, Necessity and Provability', Leuven, 1999
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Demonstrative Thought - A Pragmatic View

by Felipe Nogueira De Carvalho

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 How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? This book proposes to answer this question in terms of graded practical knowledge of objects and how they behave in space and time, developing a novel account of demonstrative thoughts within a pragmatist approach to singular mental representation.
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Minimal Verificationism - On The Limits Of Knowledge

by Gordian Haas

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 Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism. In the last 50 years, this view has, however, received tremendously bad press as its advocates failed to resolve its problems. In this book, the author argues in favor of a weak form of verificationism.
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Telling What She Thinks - Semantics And Pragmatics Of Propositional Attitude Reports

by Tomoo Ueda

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 Aims at analyzing semantic values of proper names occurring in belief reports. This book focuses on the discussion about Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports.
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Scientific Realism In Particle Physics - A Causal Approach

by Matthias Egg

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 Does particle physics really describe the basic constituents of the material world or is it just a useful tool for deriving empirical predictions? This book proposes a novel answer to that question, emphasizing the importance of causal reasoning for the justification of scientific claims.
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Reduction In Philosophy Of Mind - A Pluralistic Account

by Markus I. Eronen

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 The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. In this book, the author applies developments in philosophy of science, the mechanistic explanation paradigm and the interventionist theory of causation, to reassess the traditional approaches to reduction in philosophy of mind.
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Reductionism In The Philosophy Of Science

by Christian Sachse

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 In contemporary philosophy of science, ontological reductionism, or the claim that everything that exists in the world is something physical, is the consensus mainstream position. Contrary to a widespread belief, this book establishes that ontological and epistemological reductionism stand or fall together.
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Non-Locality And Possible World - A Counterfactual Perspective On Quantum Entanglement

by Tomasz F. Bigaj

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 Develops the possible-world semantics of quantum counterfactuals using David Lewis' famous approach as a starting point but modifying it significantly in order to achieve compatibility with the demands of the special theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics.
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Persistence Through Time, And Across Possible Worlds

by Jiri Benovsky

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 Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds
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A Two-Dimensionalist Guide To Conceptual Analysis

by Jens Kipper

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 According to epistemic two-dimensionalism, or simply twodimensionalism, linguistic expressions are associated with two intensions, one of which represents an expression's a priori implications. This book investigates the prospects of conceptual analysis on the basis of a twodimensionalist theory of meaning.
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Knowledge - Genetic Foundations And Epistemic Coherence

by Birte Schelling

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 Contributes to the discussion in epistemology by proposing a new explication of the concept of knowledge which is spelled out in terms of coherence. This book draws on the ideas of Donald Davidson, Laurence BonJour and Keith Lehrer and offers a new perspective on the old project of analyzing the concept of knowledge.
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From Psychology To Neuroscience - A New Reductive Account

by Patrice, Ph.D. Soom

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 Explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, this book provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental.
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Collective Epistemology

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 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." This title offers a collection of essays that addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words.
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Knowledge, Language, And Interpretation - On The Philosophy Of Donald Davidson

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Principles Of Truth

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 The series is devoted to English- and German-language studies in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of science, carried out in an analytical style and dealing with current debates.
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Is Truth The Primary Epistemic Goal?

by Markus Patrick Hess

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 Focuses on a problem that has aroused the most controversy in epistemological debate, which is whether the truth can or cannot be the fundamental epistemic goal.
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Demonstrative Thought - A Pragmatic View

by Felipe Nogueira De Carvalho

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content="mshtml 8.00.6001.23644"></head> <body> How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? Many philosophers have answered this question in terms of a sophisticated conception of space and time and the movement of objects therein. A more recent reaction against this view sought to explain this capacity solely in terms of perceptual mechanisms of object individuation. Neither explanation remains fully satisfactory. This book argues for a more desirable middle ground in terms of a pragmatist approach to demonstrative thought, where this capacity is explained through graded practical knowledge of objects. This view allows us to do justice to important insights put forward by both positions criticized in the book, while avoiding their potential shortcomings. It also paves the way to a more pragmatist approach to the theory of mental representation, where the notion of practical knowledge is allowed to play a central role in our cognitive life. Finally, it shows how practical knowledge may be firmly rooted in neurobiological processes and mechanisms that conform to what the empirical sciences tell us about the mind.</body></html>
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Scientific Realism In Particle Physics - A Causal Approach

by Matthias Egg

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="mshtml 6.00.6000.21335" name=generator></head> <body> Particle physics studies highly complex processes which cannot be directly observed. Scientific realism claims that we are nevertheless warranted in believing that these processes really occur and that the objects involved in them really exist. This book defends a version of scientific realism, called causal realism, in the context of particle physics. The first part of the book introduces the central theses and arguments in the recent philosophical debate on scientific realism and discusses entity realism, which is the most important precursor of causal realism. It also argues against the view that the very debate on scientific realism is not worth pursuing at all. In the second part, causal realism is developed and the key distinction between two kinds of warrant for scientific claims is clarified. This distinction proves its usefulness in a case study analyzing the discovery of the neutrino. It is also shown to be effective against an influential kind of pessimism, according to which even our best present theories are likely to be replaced some day by radically distinct alternatives. The final part discusses some specific challenges posed to realism by quantum physics, such as non-locality, delayed choice and the absence of particles in relativistic quantum theories. </body></html>
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Demonstrative Thought - A Pragmatic View

by Felipe Nogueira De Carvalho

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 How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? This book proposes to answer this question in terms of graded practical knowledge of objects and how they behave in space and time, developing a novel account of demonstrative thoughts within a pragmatist approach to singular mental representation.
Minimal Verificationism - On The Limits Of Knowledge

by Gordian Haas

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 Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism. In the last 50 years, this view has, however, received tremendously bad press as its advocates failed to resolve its problems. In this book, the author argues in favor of a weak form of verificationism.
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Minimal Verificationism - On The Limits Of Knowledge

by Gordian Haas

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="mshtml 6.00.6000.21371" name=generator></head> <body> Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism. According to this principle, a sentence is insignificant in a certain sense if its truth value cannot be determined. Although logical empiricists strove for decades to develop an adequate principle of verification, they failed to resolve its problems. This led to a general abandonment of the verificationist project in the early 1960s. In the last 50 years, this view has received tremendously bad press. Today it is mostly regarded as an outdated historical concept. Theories that have evolved since the abandonment of verificationism can, however, help overcome some of its key problems. More specifically, an adequate criterion of significance can be derived from a combination of modern theories of justification and belief revision, along with a formal semantics for counterfactuals. In view of these potential improvements, the abandonment of verificationism appears premature. Half a century following its decline, it might be about time to revisit this disreputable view. The author argues in favor of a weak form of verificationism. This approach could be referred to as minimal verificationism, as it involves a weakening of traditional verificationist principles in various respects while maintaining their core idea.</body></html>
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Telling What She Thinks - Semantics And Pragmatics Of Propositional Attitude Reports

by Tomoo Ueda

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 Aims at analyzing semantic values of proper names occurring in belief reports. This book focuses on the discussion about Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports.
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Telling What She Thinks - Semantics And Pragmatics Of Propositional Attitude Reports

by Tomoo Ueda

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content="mshtml 8.00.6001.23644"></head> <body> Freges puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim is to extend Crimminss basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Freges puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy. </body></html>
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Principles Of Truth - [Conference "Truth, Necessity And Provability", Which Was Held In Leuven, Belgium, From 18 To 20 November 1999]

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content="mshtml 8.00.6001.19412"></head> <body> On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for philosophical research on the notion of truth. And conversely, philosophical guidance is necessary for the development of logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. From this perspective, this volume intends to reflect and promote deeper interaction and collaboration between philosophers and logicians investigating the concept of truth than has existed so far.Aside from an extended introductory overview of recent work in the theory of truth, the volume consists of articles by leading philosophers and logicians on subjects and debates that are situated on the interface between logical and philosophical theories of truth. The volume is intended for graduate students in philosophy and in logic who want an introduction to contemporary research in this area, as well as for professional philosophers and logicians</body></html>
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