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Télécharger le livre : Oskar Becker, On the Logic of Modalities (1930): Translation, Commentary and Analysis
Stefania Centrone , Pierluigi Minari
Oskar Becker, On the Logic of Modalities (1930): Translation, Commentary and Analysis
This book offers the first-ever English translation of Oskar Becker’s Zur Logik der Modalitäten. This essay, published in 1930, is a pioneering yet often neglected contribution in the context of prewar modal logic research in Europe. Becker’s text is...
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Parution : 2022-04-11
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Télécharger le livre : Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
Alessio Santelli
Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
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 : Powers, Time and Free Will
Christopher J. Austin , Anna Marmodoro , Andrea Roselli
Powers, Time and Free Will
This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature. Which conception of laws of nature best fits with how we conceive of free will?...
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Parution : 2022-03-28
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Télécharger le livre : Pyrrhonism Past and Present
Diego E. Machuca
Pyrrhonism Past and Present
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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Télécharger le livre : The Justificatory Force of Experiences
Philipp Berghofer
The Justificatory Force of Experiences
This book offers a phenomenological conception of experiential justification that seeks to clarify why certain experiences are a source of immediate justification and what role experiences play in gaining (scientific) knowledge. Based on the author's account...
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Parution : 2022-03-24
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Télécharger le livre : The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities
Rodrigo Pinto De Brito
The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities
This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry. It examines the critique which asserts that it's not possible to live this Early Greek philosophy in practice. The investigation also details new discoveries on the reception of Skepticism...
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Parution : 2022-03-08
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Télécharger le livre : The Making of Mathematics
Carlo Cellucci
The Making of Mathematics
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 : The Logic of Responsibility Voids
Hein Duijf
The Logic of Responsibility Voids
This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents. Responsibility voids are thought to occur in collective decision-making and in the...
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Télécharger le livre : Sextus Empiricus' Neo-Pyrrhonism
Plínio Junqueira Smith
Sextus Empiricus' Neo-Pyrrhonism
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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Télécharger le livre : Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant
Catalina González Quintero
Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant
This book offers an unprecedented study of the influence of the skepticism of the New Platonic Academy on David Hume’s and Immanuel Kant’s critiques of metaphysics. By demonstrating how the skeptical teachings of the Academy affected these authors’ Enlightened attacks...
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Parution : 2022-02-25
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Télécharger le livre : Logic Without Gaps or Gluts
Benjamin Alan Burgis
Logic Without Gaps or Gluts
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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Télécharger le livre : Time, Identity and the Self: Essays on Metaphysics
Brian Garrett , Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Time, Identity and the Self: Essays on Metaphysics
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
Marco Ruffino
Contingent A Priori Truths
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
Newton C. A. Da Costa , Francisco Antonio Doria
On Hilbert's Sixth Problem
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 : Embracing Scientific Realism
Seungbae Park
Embracing Scientific Realism
This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to...
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Parution : 2021-12-02
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Télécharger le livre : Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions
Casper Storm Hansen
Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions
This book presents a new nominalistic philosophy of mathematics: semantic conventionalism. Its central thesis is that mathematics should be founded on the human ability to create language – and specifically, the ability to institute conventions for the truth conditions...
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Parution : 2021-11-04
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Télécharger le livre : Top-Down Causation and Emergence
Markus Gabriel , Jan Voosholz
Top-Down Causation and Emergence
This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation. The chapters combine to form a unique, interdisciplinary perspective, drawing upon George Ellis's extensive research and...
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Parution : 2021-08-06
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Télécharger le livre : The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics
Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics
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
Helen De Cruz , Johan De Smedt
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics
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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Télécharger le livre : Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
Sean Allen-Hermanson , Anton Killin
Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
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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