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Jiri Benovsky Meta-metaphysics Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice.Before we get there, the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-03-22 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Vincent C. Müller Computing and Philosophy This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-16 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Alessandro Torza Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-07-23 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Dale Jacquette Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-07-13 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Peter Gärdenfors , Frank Zenker Applications of Conceptual Spaces This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters. The first section explores issues of linguistic semantics, including speakers’ negotiation of meaning. Further... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-04-16 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Luciano Floridi , Phyllis Illari The Philosophy of Information Quality This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards. The meaning and practical implementation of IQ are addressed, as it is relevant to any field where there is a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-08-01 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Finn Collin , Julie Zahle Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals.This... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-06-05 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Claudio Calosi , Pierluigi Graziani Mereology and the Sciences This volume is the first systematic and thorough attempt to investigate the relation and the possible applications of mereology to contemporary science. It gathers contributions from leading scholars in the field and covers a wide range of scientific theories and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-06-02 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Abrol Fairweather Virtue Epistemology Naturalized This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-27 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Bas van Fraassen's Approach to Representation and Models in Science This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-19 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Franck Lihoreau , Manuel Rebuschi Epistemology, Context, and Formalism The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized – a question of prime importance and utmost relevance to such... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-01-17 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ulianov Montano Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena. Building upon a view advanced by James McAllister, the assertion is that beauty in science... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-12-20 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Andreas Hüttemann , Marie I. Kaiser , Daniel Plenge , Oliver R. Scholz Explanation in the Special Sciences Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past. Maximizing the opportunities for cross-fertilization in these two fields requires an accurate reckoning of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-29 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Andrei Rodin Axiomatic Method and Category Theory This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia. The author, a well-known philosopher and historian of mathematics,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-14 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Maarten Franssen , Peter Kroes , Thomas A.C. Reydon , Pieter E. Vermaas Artefact Kinds This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-04 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Philippe Huneman Functions: selection and mechanisms This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-02-20 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Frank Zenker Bayesian Argumentation Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-12-09 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Fabrice Correia , Andrea Iacona Around the Tree Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-11-30 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Francesco Berto Existence as a Real Property This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-10-17 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Gregor Betz Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-08-15 Collection : Synthese Library Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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