Télécharger le livre :  Priority Nominalism

This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics. It presents an improved version of Ostrich Nominalism to solve the Problem of Universals.This innovative approach allows one to resolve the different formulations of the Problem, which represents an...
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Télécharger le livre :  Perception and Discovery

Norwood Russell Hanson was one of the most important philosophers of science of the post-war period. Hanson brought Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosophy to bear on the concepts of science, and his treatments of observation, discovery, and the theory-ladenness of...
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Télécharger le livre :  Nothing To Come

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.D. Broad. The book offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious...
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth in Fiction

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable...
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Parution : 2018-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives

This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that...
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Télécharger le livre :  Logical Form

Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or...
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Télécharger le livre :  Macroscopic Metaphysics

This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather...
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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking about Contradictions

This volume examines the entire logical and philosophical production of Nicolai A. Vasil’ev, studying his life and activities as a historian and man of letters. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of this influential Russian logician, philosopher,...
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Télécharger le livre :  How Colours Matter to Philosophy

This edited volume explores the different and seminal ways colours matter to philosophy. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of one or more cases in which colours raise philosophical problems in different areas and periods of philosophy. This historically...
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Parution : 2017-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Logical Legacy of Nikolai Vasiliev and Modern Logic

This volume offers a wide range of both reconstructions of Nikolai Vasiliev’s original logical ideas and their implementations in the modern logic and philosophy. A collection of works put together through the international workshop "Nikolai Vasiliev’s Logical Legacy...
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Parution : 2017-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

Essays on Husserl’s Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics sets out to fill up a lacuna in the present research on Husserl by presenting a precise account of Husserl’s work in the field of logic, of the philosophy of logic and of the philosophy of mathematics. The aim is...
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics and Its Applications

This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science. It explores what mathematics must be so that its applications to the empirical world do not constitute a mystery. In the process, readers are presented with a new version of...
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Parution : 2017-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Fading Foundations

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good reasons, and reasons can only be good if they are backed by good...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics

This monograph presents Azzouni’s new approach to the rule-following paradox. His solution leaves intact an isolated individual’s capacity to follow rules, and it simultaneously avoids replacing the truth conditions for meaning-talk with mere assertability conditions...
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Télécharger le livre :  Causal Nets, Interventionism, and Mechanisms

This monograph looks at causal nets from a philosophical point of view. The author shows that one can build a general philosophical theory of causation on the basis of the causal nets framework that can be fruitfully used to shed new light on philosophical issues....
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Parution : 2017-01-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Science in Practice

This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and...
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Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Modal Justification via Theories

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she...
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Télécharger le livre :  Modal Epistemology After Rationalism

This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys...
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Parution : 2016-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.This work examines the conditions for artificial intelligence, how these relate to the conditions...
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Parution : 2016-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, and reliable processes. The book’s...
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Parution : 2016-04-22
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