Télécharger le livre :  The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics

This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical. The first section covers the history of these ideas in philosophy.  Chapter one, entitled ‘The continuous and...
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Parution : 2019-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer

This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays...
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Parution : 2017-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition

This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical...
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Parution : 2016-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Poincaré, Philosopher of Science

This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincaré Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincaré's philosophy of science—both its...
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Parution : 2014-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual...
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Parution : 2012-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Structural Realism

Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on...
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Parution : 2012-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics

The book "Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics" is a book on the classical topic of foundations of mathematics. Its originality resides mainly in its treating at the same time foundations of classical and foundations of constructive...
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Parution : 2011-03-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms

The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L. Bell to celebrate his 60th birthday by colleagues, former students, friends and admirers. Like Bell’s own work, the contributions cross boundaries into several inter-related fields.The...
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Parution : 2011-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on the Foundations of Mathematics by Moritz Pasch

Moritz Pasch (1843-1930) is justly celebrated as a key figure in the history of axiomatic geometry. Less well known are his contributions to other areas of foundational research. This volume features English translations of 14 papers Pasch published in the decade...
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Parution : 2010-08-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Physical Theory and its Interpretation

JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science. Later we were colleagues atWestern Ontario. Our friendship and collaboration owe a great...
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Parution : 2006-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  A Logical Approach to Philosophy

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on Nov. 1, he died of a massive stroke, at the age of 44. Solomon was well liked by those who got the chance to know him—it...
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Parution : 2006-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Intuition and the Axiomatic Method

Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant’s theory of intuition to be obsolete. But this only represents one side of the story concerning Kant, intuition and twentieth century...
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Parution : 2006-07-02
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