Logic Epistemology And Scientific Theories From Peano To The Vienna Circle

Author : Paola Cantù,Georg Schiemer
Publisher : Springer
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Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031421892

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Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle by Paola Cantù,Georg Schiemer Pdf

This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the editorial board of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, and the members of the Vienna Circle are generally mentioned as champions of this transformation of the role of logic in mathematics and in the sciences. The scholarship contained provides a rich historical and philosophical understanding of these groups and research areas. Specifically, the contributions focus on a detailed investigation of the relation between structuralism and modern mathematics. In addition, this book provides a closer understanding of the relation between symbolic logic and previous traditions such as syllogistics. This volume also informs the reader on the relation between logic, the history and didactics in the Peano School. This edition appeals to students and researchers working in the history of philosophy and of logic, philosophy of science, as well as to researchers on the Vienna Circle and the Peano School.

Author : Paola Cantù,Georg Schiemer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031421907

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Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle by Paola Cantù,Georg Schiemer Pdf

This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the editorial board of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, and the members of the Vienna Circle are generally mentioned as champions of this transformation of the role of logic in mathematics and in the sciences. The scholarship contained provides a rich historical and philosophical understanding of these groups and research areas. Specifically, the contributions focus on a detailed investigation of the relation between structuralism and modern mathematics. In addition, this book provides a closer understanding of the relation between symbolic logic and previous traditions such as syllogistics. This volume also informs the reader on the relation between logic, the history and didactics in the Peano School. This edition appeals to students and researchers working in the history of philosophy and of logic, philosophy of science, as well as to researchers on the Vienna Circle and the Peano School.

Author : Wesley C. Salmon,Gereon Wolters
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082297035X

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Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories by Wesley C. Salmon,Gereon Wolters Pdf

This volume honors and examines the founders of the philosophy of logical empiricism. Historical and interpretive essays clarify the scientific philosophies of Carnap, Reichenbach, Hempel, Kant, and others, while exploring the main topics of logical empiricist philosophy of science.

Author : Paolo Parrini,Wesley C. Salmon,Merrilee H. Salmon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822970729

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Logical Empiricism by Paolo Parrini,Wesley C. Salmon,Merrilee H. Salmon Pdf

This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science.

Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048162831

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The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism by Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). It provides historical and systematic research and deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science. It also explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy and focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents.

Author : Laurent Mazliak,Glenn Shafer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031059889

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The Splendors and Miseries of Martingales by Laurent Mazliak,Glenn Shafer Pdf

Over the past eighty years, martingales have become central in the mathematics of randomness. They appear in the general theory of stochastic processes, in the algorithmic theory of randomness, and in some branches of mathematical statistics. Yet little has been written about the history of this evolution. This book explores some of the territory that the history of the concept of martingales has transformed. The historian of martingales faces an immense task. We can find traces of martingale thinking at the very beginning of probability theory, because this theory was related to gambling, and the evolution of a gambler’s holdings as a result of following a particular strategy can always be understood as a martingale. More recently, in the second half of the twentieth century, martingales became important in the theory of stochastic processes at the very same time that stochastic processes were becoming increasingly important in probability, statistics and more generally in various applied situations. Moreover, a history of martingales, like a history of any other branch of mathematics, must go far beyond an account of mathematical ideas and techniques. It must explore the context in which the evolution of ideas took place: the broader intellectual milieux of the actors, the networks that already existed or were created by the research, even the social and political conditions that favored or hampered the circulation and adoption of certain ideas. This books presents a stroll through this history, in part a guided tour, in part a random walk. First, historical studies on the period from 1920 to 1950 are presented, when martingales emerged as a distinct mathematical concept. Then insights on the period from 1950 into the 1980s are offered, when the concept showed its value in stochastic processes, mathematical statistics, algorithmic randomness and various applications.

Author : Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401576765

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Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004457751

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Quine by Anonim Pdf

From the contents: Naturalistic epistemology, murder and suicide? But what about the promises! (Ton Derksen). - Naturalism and rationality (Christopher Hookway). - Quine's hypothetical theory of language learning: a comparison of different conceptualschemes of their logic (Mia Gosselin). - Quine and innate similarity spaces (Jaap van Brakel). - Quine and Davidson on the structure of empirical knowledge (Dirk Koppelberg). - Empathy and charity (Eva Picardi). - Quine: indeterminacy, 'robust realism', and truth (Sandra Laugier). - Quine and Putnam on conceptual relativity and reference: theft or honest toil? (Roger Vergauwen).

Author : Decio Krause,Jonas R.B. Arenhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781315535203

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The Logical Foundations of Scientific Theories by Decio Krause,Jonas R.B. Arenhart Pdf

This book addresses the logical aspects of the foundations of scientific theories. Even though the relevance of formal methods in the study of scientific theories is now widely recognized and regaining prominence, the issues covered here are still not generally discussed in philosophy of science. The authors focus mainly on the role played by the underlying formal apparatuses employed in the construction of the models of scientific theories, relating the discussion with the so-called semantic approach to scientific theories. The book describes the role played by this metamathematical framework in three main aspects: considerations of formal languages employed to axiomatize scientific theories, the role of the axiomatic method itself, and the way set-theoretical structures, which play the role of the models of theories, are developed. The authors also discuss the differences and philosophical relevance of the two basic ways of aximoatizing a scientific theory, namely Patrick Suppes’ set theoretical predicates and the "da Costa and Chuaqui" approach. This book engages with important discussions of the nature of scientific theories and will be a useful resource for researchers and upper-level students working in philosophy of science.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 0415285941

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Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

Author : Shahid Rahman,John Symons,Dov M. Gabbay,jean paul van bendegem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402028083

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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science by Shahid Rahman,John Symons,Dov M. Gabbay,jean paul van bendegem Pdf

The first volume in this new series explores, through extensive co-operation, new ways of achieving the integration of science in all its diversity. The book offers essays from important and influential philosophers in contemporary philosophy, discussing a range of topics from philosophy of science to epistemology, philosophy of logic and game theoretical approaches. It will be of interest to philosophers, computer scientists and all others interested in the scientific rationality.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134470020

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper Pdf

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226300625

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Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith Pdf

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of one hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Intended for undergraduates and general readers with no prior background in philosophy, Theory and Reality covers logical positivism; the problems of induction and confirmation; Karl Popper's theory of science; Thomas Kuhn and "scientific revolutions"; the views of Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, and Paul Feyerabend; and challenges to the field from sociology of science, feminism, and science studies. The book then looks in more detail at some specific problems and theories, including scientific realism, the theory-ladeness of observation, scientific explanation, and Bayesianism. Finally, Godfrey-Smith defends a form of philosophical naturalism as the best way to solve the main problems in the field. Throughout the text he points out connections between philosophical debates and wider discussions about science in recent decades, such as the infamous "science wars." Examples and asides engage the beginning student; a glossary of terms explains key concepts; and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. However, this is a textbook that doesn't feel like a textbook because it captures the historical drama of changes in how science has been conceived over the last one hundred years. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates in language that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow.

Author : Maria van der Schaar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400751378

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Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic by Maria van der Schaar Pdf

This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review. The commentary repatriates the concept of judgement in the discussion, banished in recent times by the logical positivism of Wittgenstein, Hilbert and Schlick, and the Platonism of Bolzano. The volume commences with the insights of Swedish philosopher Per Martin-Löf, the father of constructive type theory, for whom logic is a demonstrative science in which judgement is a settled feature of the landscape. His paper opens the first of four sections that examine, in turn, historical philosophical assessments of judgement and reason; their place in early modern philosophy; the notion of judgement and logical theory in Wolff, Kant and Neo-Kantians like Windelband; their development in the Husserlian phenomenological paradigm; and the work of Bolzano, Russell and Frege. The papers, whose authors include Per Martin-Löf, Göran Sundholm, Michael Della Rocca and Robin Rollinger, represent a finely judged editorial selection highlighting work on philosophers exercised by the question of whether or not an epistemic notion of judgement has a role to play in logic. The volume will be of profound interest to students and academicians for its application of historical developments in philosophy to the solution of vexatious contemporary issues in the foundation of logic. ​

Author : P.V. Tavanec
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401033930

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Problems of the Logic of Scientific Knowledge by P.V. Tavanec Pdf