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  • Models and Inferences in Science

    Edited by Emiliano Ippoliti, Fabio Sterpetti, Tom Nickles ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book answers long-standing questions on scientific modeling and inference across multiple perspectives and disciplines, including logic, mathematics, physics and medicine. The different chapters cover a variety of issues, such as the role models play in scientific practice; the way science shapes our concept of models; ways of modeling the pursuit of scientific knowledge; the relationship ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Proofiness

    How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

    by Charles Seife ...
    The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives.According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington, D.C., even ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    by Michael Heller ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Quantum Physics, Fuzzy Sets and Logic

    Steps Towards a Many-Valued Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    by Jarosław Pykacz ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This Brief presents steps towards elaborating a new interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a specific version of Łukasiewicz infinite-valued logic. It begins with a short survey of main interpretations of quantum mechanics already proposed, as well as various models of many-valued logics and previous attempts to apply them for the description of quantum phenomena. The prospective many-valued ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • From Logic to Practice

    Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Edited by Gabriele Lolli, Marco Panza, Giorgio Venturi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly intensive activity in the philosophy of mathematics is underway, due on the one hand to the disillusionment with respect to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl

    by Stefania Centrone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl’s work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. Unlike most phenomenologists, the author refrains from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Objectivity, Realism, and Proof

    FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Edited by Francesca Boccuni, Andrea Sereni ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical knowledge.The essays collected here explore the semantic and epistemic problems raised by different kinds of mathematical objects, by their ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

    The Story of Necessity

    Edited by Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares, Adriane Rini ...
    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century

    Edited by Evelyne Barbin, Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself. So the main question is: When and why did the tension between mathematics and physics, explicitly practised at least since ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics Today

    Edited by György Darvas, E. Agazzi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen tially independent of linguistic formulations, in the sense that, once the content of this knowledge has been grasped, there remains only the problem of professional ability, that of clearly formulating and correctly proving it. However, the question is not so simple, and P. Weingartner's paper (Language and Coding-Dependency of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity

    A Critical Exposition of Arguments for Intuitionism

    by Tomasz Placek ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with this event the modem version of mathematical intuitionism came into being. Brouwer attacked the main currents of the philosophy of mathematics: the formalists and the Platonists. In tum, both these schools began viewing intuitionism as the most harmful party among all known ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language

    Edited by Alessandro Torza ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    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 model theory of mathematics. It advances an argument for the uniqueness of quantifier meaning in terms of Evert Beth’s notion of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD