Reason S Nearest Kin

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191520228

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Reason's Nearest Kin by Michael Potter Pdf

How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these questions from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In the space of fifty years Frege, Dedekind, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Hilbert, and Carnap developed accounts of the content of arithmetic that were brilliantly original both technically and philosophically. Michael Potter's innovative study presents them all as finding that content in various aspects of the complex linkage between experience, language, thought, and the world. Potter's reading places them all in Kant's shadow since it was his attempt to ground arithmetic in the spatio-temporal structure of reality that they were reacting against; but it places us in Gödel's shadow since his incompleteness theorems supply us with a measure of the richness of the content they were trying to explain. This stimulating reassessment of some of the classic texts in the philosophy of mathematics reveals many unexpected connections and illuminating comparisons, and offers a wealth of ideas for future work in the subject.

Author : Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : OXFORD:600092333

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Catholic controversy. A reply to dr. Littledale's 'Plain reasons'. by Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder Pdf

Author : John Skorupski
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191651632

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The Domain of Reasons by John Skorupski Pdf

This book is about normativity and reasons. By the end, however, the subject becomes the relation between self, thought, and world. If we understand normativity, we are on the road to understanding this relation. John Skorupski argues that all normative properties are reducible to reason relations, so that the sole normative ingredient in any normative concept is the concept of a reason. This is a concept fundamental to all thought. It is pervasive (actions, beliefs, and sentiments all fall within its range), primitive (all other normative concepts are reducible to it), and constitutive of the idea of thought itself. Thinking is sensitivity to reasons. Thought in the full sense of autonomous cognition is possible only for a being sensitive to reasons and capable of deliberating about them. In Part II of the book Skorupski examines epistemic reasons, and shows that aprioricity, necessity, evidence, and probability, which may not seem to be normative at all, are in fact normative concepts analysable in terms of the concept of a reason. In Part III he shows the same for the concept of a person's good, and for moral concepts including the concept of a right. Part IV moves to the epistemology and metaphysics of reasons. When we make claims about reasons to believe, reasons to feel, or reasons to act we are asserting genuine propositions: judgeable, truth-apt contents. But these normative propositions must be distinguished from factual propositions, for they do not represent states of affairs. So Skorupski's ambitious theory of normativity has broad and deep implications for philosophy. It shows how reflection on the logic, epistemology, and ontology of reasons finally leads us to an account of the interplay of self, thought, and world.

Author : Daniel Weissbort,Ástráður Eysteinsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198711995

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Translation by Daniel Weissbort,Ástráður Eysteinsson Pdf

Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader responds to the need for a collection of primary texts on translation, in the English tradition, from the earliest times to the present day. Based on an exhaustive survey of the wealth of available materials, the Reader demonstrates throughout the link between theory and practice, with excerpts not only of significant theoretical writings but of actual translations, as well as excerpts on translation from letters, interviews, autobiographies, and fiction. The collection is intended as a teaching tool, but also as an encyclopaedia for the use of translators and writers on translation. It presents the full panoply of approaches to translation, without necessarily judging between them, but showing clearly what is to be gained or lost in each case. Translations of key texts, such as the Bible and the Homeric epic, are traced through the ages, with the same passages excerpted, making it possible for readers to construct their own map of the evolution of translation and to evaluate, in their historical contexts, the variety of approaches. The passages in question are also accompanied by ad verbum versions, to facilitate comparison. The bibliographies are likewise comprehensive. The editors have drawn on the expertise of leading scholars in the field, including the late James S. Holmes, Louis Kelly, Jonathan Wilcox, Jane Stevenson, David Hopkins, and many others. In addition, significant non-English texts, such as Martin Luther's "Circular Letter on Translation," which may be said to have inaugurated the Reformation, are included, helping to set the English tradition in a wider context. Related items, such as the introductions to their work by Tudor and Jacobean translators or the work of women translators from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been brought together in "collages," marking particularly important moments or developments in the history of translation. This comprehensive reader provides an invaluable and illuminating resource for scholars and students of translation and English literature, as well as poets, cultural historians, and professional translators.

Author : Sylvia Bowerbank
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Paper Bodies by Sylvia Bowerbank Pdf

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770486317

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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing World, Cavendish depicts her heroine, the Empress, in multiple roles. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned from Earth. A companion volume to Cavendish’s important Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Blazing World is the first science-fiction novel known to have been written and published by a woman, and represents a pioneering female scientific utopia. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish’s role in the intellectual world of her time.

Author : Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035603798

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Symbolizing Existence by Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann Pdf

Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening “deterritorialization” of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index the entire realm of what can be expressed and represented through a cascade of geometrical, functional, or finally logified schemes. We are currently experiencing a rapid loss of “grounding” of that which we once considered binding in our cultural and intellectual history. How can we obtain an articulate, cultivate way of thinking about “instances” that does not fall back into a schematic model Platonism (thereby falling behind Plato), and that does not remain enmeshed in an Aristotelian realization dynamics with a naturalism organized by original genus, kinds, and specific marks of distinction? The central phenomenon considered was the technological process of doping material: At the quantum level, a particle or its representation, the point, is no longer “that which has no parts” (Euclid).

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780198250418

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Reason's Nearest Kin by Michael Potter Pdf

How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these questions from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In the space of fifty years Frege, Dedekind, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Hilbert, and Carnap developed accounts of the content of arithmeticthat were brilliantly original both technically and philosophically. Michael Potter's innovative study presents them all as finding that content in various aspects of the complex linkage between experience, language, thought, and the world. Potter's reading places them all in Kant's shadow since it was hisattempt to ground arithmetic in the spatio-temporal structure of reality that they were reacting against; but it places us in Gödel's shadow since his incompleteness theorems supply us with a measure of the richness of the content they were trying to explain. This stimulating reassessment of some of the classic texts in the philosophy of mathematics reveals many unexpected connections and illuminating comparisons, and offers a wealth of ideas for future work in the subject.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351259187

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The Works of Aphra Behn: v. 4: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated by Janet Todd Pdf

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.

Author : Michael D. Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1413903360

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Reason's Nearest Kin by Michael D. Potter Pdf

Author : Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783990436271

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EigenArchitecture by Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann Pdf

This book shifts the frame of reference for today’s network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today’s economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Author : United States. Bureau of Manufactures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Insurance
ISBN : NYPL:33433082370937

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Insurance in Foreign Countries ... by United States. Bureau of Manufactures Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015578289

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Special Consular Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780190287535

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic by Stewart Shapiro Pdf

Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy. Since logic is the study of correct reasoning, it is a fundamental branch of epistemology and a priority in any philosophical system. Philosophers have focused on mathematics as a case study for general philosophical issues and for its role in overall knowledge- gathering. Today, philosophy of mathematics and logic remain central disciplines in contemporary philosophy, as evidenced by the regular appearance of articles on these topics in the best mainstream philosophical journals; in fact, the last decade has seen an explosion of scholarly work in these areas. This volume covers these disciplines in a comprehensive and accessible manner, giving the reader an overview of the major problems, positions, and battle lines. The 26 contributed chapters are by established experts in the field, and their articles contain both exposition and criticism as well as substantial development of their own positions. The essays, which are substantially self-contained, serve both to introduce the reader to the subject and to engage in it at its frontiers. Certain major positions are represented by two chapters--one supportive and one critical. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Math and Logic is a ground-breaking reference like no other in its field. It is a central resource to those wishing to learn about the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of logic, or some aspect thereof, and to those who actively engage in the discipline, from advanced undergraduates to professional philosophers, mathematicians, and historians.

Author : Benjamin Flower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555013765

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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times by Benjamin Flower Pdf