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Télécharger le livre :  Noneist Explorations I
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Noneist Explorations I


Richard Routley , Val Routley


This second 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 2 through 7 of the original...

Parution : 2019-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Quanta and Mind
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Quanta and Mind


J. Acacio De Barros , Carlos Montemayor


This edited volume examines aspects of the mind/consciousness that are relevant to the interpretations of quantum mechanics. In it, an international group of contributors focus on the possible connections between quantum mechanics and consciousness. They look at how...

Parution : 2019-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences
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Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences


Mark Addis , Fernand Gobet , Peter C. R. Lane , Peter D. Sozou


This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behavioural sciences, computer science, finance, and statistics with an emphasis on philosophy.The first of the...

Parution : 2019-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics
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Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics


Alberto Cordero


This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It features papers from venues of the International Ontology Congress (IOC) up to 2016. IOC is a worldwide platform for dialogue and reflection on the interactions between science...

Parution : 2019-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Logic of Sortals
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The Logic of Sortals


Max A. Freund


Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy. Apart from logic and philosophy, the study of sortal concepts has found its place in specific fields of psychology,...

Parution : 2019-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications
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Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications


Peter Gärdenfors , Antti Hautamäki , Mauri Kaipainen , Frank Zenker


This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today’s most central tracks of cognitive science discourse. It features 15 papers based on topics presented at the Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016 conference. The...

Parution : 2019-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility
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An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility


Andrea Robitzsch


This monograph provides a novel reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment. The author presents unique arguments for the epistemic significance of belief-influencing actions and omissions. She grounds her proposal in indirect doxastic control.The book...

Parution : 2019-06-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Directival Theory of Meaning
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Directival Theory of Meaning


Pawel Grabarczyk


This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. The author argues that the DTM was forgotten...

Parution : 2019-06-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Ultralogic as Universal?
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Ultralogic as Universal?


Richard Routley , Zach Weber


Ultralogic as Universal? is a seminal text in non-classcial logic. Richard Routley (Sylvan) presents a hugely ambitious program: to use an 'ultramodal' logic as a universal key, which opens, if rightly operated, all locks. It provides a canon for reasoning in every...

Parution : 2019-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Themes from Klein
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Themes from Klein


Rodrigo Borges , Cherie Braden , Branden Fitelson


This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D. Klein. It explores the work and legacy of this prominent philosopher, who has had and continues to have a tremendous influence in the development of epistemology. The essays reflect the breadth...

Parution : 2019-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
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The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism


Nicholas Maxwell


This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction.  Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to...

Parution : 2019-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited
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Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited


Theo A. F. Kuipers


This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years.Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a...

Parution : 2019-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond
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Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond


Richard Routley


In this first volume of The Sylvan Jungle, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, "Exploring Meinong's Jungle," of Richard Routley's 1000-plus page book,  Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond. Going against the Quinean orthodoxy,...

Parution : 2019-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations


Joseph Agassi


This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical. Of these papers, seven...

Parution : 2018-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism
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An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism


John Wright


This monograph develops a new way of justifying the claims made by science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans, such as atoms and black holes. It details a way of making inferences to the existence and properties of unobservable entities and states of...

Parution : 2018-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth-Seeking by Abduction
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Truth-Seeking by Abduction


Ilkka Niiniluoto


This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. It explores the historical and systematic connections of Peirce's original ideas and debates about their interpretations....

Parution : 2018-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
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Believing in Accordance with the Evidence


Kevin Mccain


This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification. It contains more than 20 papers that examine its nuances, its challenges, as well as its future directions. Written by leading and up-and-coming epistemologists, the papers cover a wide array...

Parution : 2018-10-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Priority Nominalism
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Priority Nominalism


Guido Imaguire


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...

Parution : 2018-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Perception and Discovery
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Perception and Discovery


Norwood Russell Hanson


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...

Parution : 2018-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Nothing To Come
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Nothing To Come


Fabrice Correia , Sven Rosenkranz


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...

Parution : 2018-05-03
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