Sind Physik, Musik und Mystik die Ethik der mathematischen Logik?
by Rolf Friedrich Schuett
Selected Papers in Logic and Foundations, Didactics, Economics (Vienna Circle Collection, #10)
by Karl Menger
This volume brings together those papers of mine which may be of interest not only to various specialists but also to philosophers. Many of my writings in mathematics were motivated by epistemological considerations; some papers originated in the critique of certain views that at one time dominated the discussions of the Vienna Cirele; others grew out of problems in teaching fundamental ideas of mathematics; sti II others were occasioned by personal relations with economists. Hence a wide range...
This book focuses on logic and logical language. It examines different types of words, terms and propositions in detail. While discussing the nature of propositions, it illustrates the procedures used to determine the truth and falsity of a proposition, and the validity and invalidity of an argument. In addition, the book provides a clear exposition of the pure and mixed form of syllogism with suitable examples. The book encompasses sentential logic, predicate logic, symbolic logic, induction an...
In Defense of Pure Reason (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by Laurence BonJour
This book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason without any dependence on sensory experience. Most recent philosophers reject the view and argue that all substantive knowledge must be sensory in origin. Laurence BonJour provocatively reopens the debate by presenting the most comprehensive exposition and defence of the rationalist view that a priori insight is a genuine basis for knowledge. This impo...
Hegels Enzyklopadisches System Der Philosophie (Spekulation Und Erfahrung, II/51)
This book presents a novel theory of probability and judgements of probability: strong coherentist subjectivism. Logue combines three claims in his exposition of this theory. The first states that probabilities may be treated as the degrees of partial belief of (ideally rational) agents, best established by the examination of behaviour. Thus, probability is personalist. The second claim contends that only such degrees of belief can be construed as probabilities: on this strongly subjectivist v...
Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science
by William Whewell
The Poverty of Conceptual Truth is based on a simple idea. Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments underwrites a powerful argument against the metaphysical program of his Leibnizian-Wolffian predecessors-an argument from fundamental limits on its expressive power. In that tradition, metaphysics promised to reveal the deep rational structure of the world through a systematic philosophy consisting of strictly conceptual truths, which flow from a logically perspicuous relation o...
Preliminary Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man (Classic Reprint)
by Thomas Reid
The Legacy of Kurt Schutte
This book on proof theory centers around the legacy of Kurt Schutte and its current impact on the subject. Schutte was the last doctoral student of David Hilbert who was the first to see that proofs can be viewed as structured mathematical objects amenable to investigation by mathematical methods (metamathematics). Schutte inaugurated the important paradigm shift from finite proofs to infinite proofs and developed the mathematical tools for their analysis. Infinitary proof theory flourished in h...
PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation. Peirce, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. 1868. For the second time the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science gathered at San Sebastian from May, 7-11, 1991 to discuss the following main topics: Knowledge of Categ...
The study of the nature of problem of personal identity By
by Choi Kyung-Ah
From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (Medicine, Cambridge) What makes a strong woman? (Theology, Oxford) Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of IKEA run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge) How do you...
Hegels Begriff Der Erinnerung (Wiener Arbeiten Zur Philosophie, #3)
by Thamar Rossi Leidi
Der Begriff der Erinnerung kommt an zentralen Stellen der Werke Hegels vor. Es sind damit insbesondere die Logik, die Phanomenologie des Geistes und die Geschichtsphilosophie angesprochen. Der Autor geht in seiner Arbeit davon aus, dass eine Untersuchung des Hegelschen Begriffs der Erinnerung den unerlasslichen Schlussel zum Verstandnis der betroffenen Stellen, somit der Hauptbereiche des Denkens Hegels liefert und es erlaubt, dieses in Rucksicht auf die deutsche klassische Philosophie, vornehml...