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Télécharger le livre :  Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions
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Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions


Casper Storm Hansen


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...

Parution : 2021-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Top-Down Causation and Emergence
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Top-Down Causation and Emergence


Markus Gabriel , Jan Voosholz


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...

Parution : 2021-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics
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The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics


Grivas Muchineripi Kayange


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...

Parution : 2021-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics
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Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics


Helen De Cruz , Johan De Smedt


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...

Parution : 2021-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
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Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy


Sean Allen-Hermanson , Anton Killin


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...

Parution : 2021-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Vagueness as Arbitrariness
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Vagueness as Arbitrariness


Sagid Salles


This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness. There are several different ways of addressing this problem and no clear agreement on which one is correct. The author proposes that it should be understood as the problem of explaining vague predicates in a...

Parution : 2021-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking
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Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking


María Laura Martínez Rodríguez


This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work. It presents Hacking’s oeuvre as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking & doing, probability, making up people, and experimentation and scientific...

Parution : 2021-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics
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Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics


Lars-Göran Johansson


This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas:...

Parution : 2021-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Noneist Explorations II
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Noneist Explorations II


Richard Routley , Val Routley


This third volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood). It focuses on the essays 8 to 12 of the original...

Parution : 2020-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research
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Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research


Wenceslao J. Gonzalez


This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the...

Parution : 2020-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations
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A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations


José Tomás Alvarado


This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...

Parution : 2020-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Relativity of Theory
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The Relativity of Theory


Moti Mizrahi


This book offers a close and rigorous examination of the arguments for and against scientific realism and introduces key positions in the scientific realism/antirealism debate, which is one of the central debates in contemporary philosophy of science. On the one...

Parution : 2020-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation
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Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation


Roman Frigg , James Nguyen


This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of the...

Parution : 2020-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Phenomenological Approaches to Physics
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Phenomenological Approaches to Physics


Philipp Berghofer , Harald A. Wiltsche


This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "standard" philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings.Much has been written on the...

Parution : 2020-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Facing Relativism
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Facing Relativism


Alyssa Luboff


This book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science. It succeeds where others have failed by combining the rigor of analytic philosophy with the first-hand insights of anthropological experience. Typically, an anthropologist’s...

Parution : 2020-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Evidence and Hypothesis in Clinical Medical Science
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Evidence and Hypothesis in Clinical Medical Science


John Alexander Pinkston


In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate. None can accurately explain the way evidence is gathered and used to confirm hypotheses. To correct this, he proposes a new approach called the...

Parution : 2020-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Abstract Objects
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Abstract Objects


José L. Falguera , Concha Martínez-Vidal


This volume examines the question “Do abstract objects exist?”, presenting new work from contributing authors across different branches of philosophy. The introduction overviews philosophical debate which considers: what objects qualify as abstract, what do we mean by...

Parution : 2020-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Dispositionalism
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Dispositionalism


Anne Sophie Meincke


According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become increasingly popular among...

Parution : 2020-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamic Tractable Reasoning
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Dynamic Tractable Reasoning


Holger Andreas


This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning. It draws on Marvin Minsky's seminal work on frames, which has been highly influential in computer science and, to a lesser extent, in cognitive science. Only very few people have explored ideas...

Parution : 2020-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science


Amihud Gilead


This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of...

Parution : 2020-03-06
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