Three Logicians

Author : George Englebretsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Logic
ISBN : UCAL:B4351386

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Three Logicians by George Englebretsen Pdf

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421404233

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The Universities of the Italian Renaissance by Paul F. Grendler Pdf

A “magisterial [and] elegantly written” study of Renaissance Italy’s remarkable accomplishments in higher education and academic research (Choice). Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. Noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline; student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted); famous faculty members; budgets and salaries; and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats—including increased student violence and competition from religious schools—ended Italy’s educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Author : Alexandru Baltag,Sonja Smets
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319060255

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Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics by Alexandru Baltag,Sonja Smets Pdf

This book illustrates the program of Logical-Informational Dynamics. Rational agents exploit the information available in the world in delicate ways, adopt a wide range of epistemic attitudes, and in that process, constantly change the world itself. Logical-Informational Dynamics is about logical systems putting such activities at center stage, focusing on the events by which we acquire information and change attitudes. Its contributions show many current logics of information and change at work, often in multi-agent settings where social behavior is essential, and often stressing Johan van Benthem's pioneering work in establishing this program. However, this is not a Festschrift, but a rich tapestry for a field with a wealth of strands of its own. The reader will see the state of the art in such topics as information update, belief change, preference, learning over time, and strategic interaction in games. Moreover, no tight boundary has been enforced, and some chapters add more general mathematical or philosophical foundations or links to current trends in computer science. The theme of this book lies at the interface of many disciplines. Logic is the main methodology, but the various chapters cross easily between mathematics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive and social sciences, while also ranging from pure theory to empirical work. Accordingly, the authors of this book represent a wide variety of original thinkers from different research communities. And their interconnected themes challenge at the same time how we think of logic, philosophy and computation. Thus, very much in line with van Benthem's work over many decades, the volume shows how all these disciplines form a natural unity in the perspective of dynamic logicians (broadly conceived) exploring their new themes today. And at the same time, in doing so, it offers a broader conception of logic with a certain grandeur, moving its horizons beyond the traditional study of consequence relations.

Author : Richard Harper,Dave Randall,Wes Sharrock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745683881

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Choice by Richard Harper,Dave Randall,Wes Sharrock Pdf

We make decisions every day. Yet we are sometimes perplexed by these decisions and the decisions of others. To complicate things further, we live in an age where there are more things to choose from than ever before – the Internet is transforming our choices and making us more accountable for them: what we choose is recorded, modelled and used to predict our future behaviour. So are we in a position to make better choices today than we were a decade ago? Certainly there are some who believe so. Psychologists claim we are subject to hidden mental processes that lead us to one thing rather than another; economists offer predictions about what people will buy; and some philosophers claim that our choices echo our evolutionary past. Are these claims merited? Do they reflect the beginnings of a new science of choice? This book offers a critical overview of these and other claims, showing where they are justified and where they are exaggerated. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in whether science can help us to understand both the ways people make choices in their everyday lives and how these may be changing.

Author : Szczepan Paszkiel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030722548

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Control, Computer Engineering and Neuroscience by Szczepan Paszkiel Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Scientific Conference IC BCI 2021 Opole, Poland. The event was held at Opole University of Technology in Poland on 21 September 2021. Since 2014, the conference has taken place every two years at the University’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics. The conference focused on the issues relating to new trends in modern brain–computer interfaces (BCI) and control engineering, including neurobiology–neurosurgery, cognitive science–bioethics, biophysics–biochemistry, modeling–neuroinformatics, BCI technology, biomedical engineering, control and robotics, computer engineering and neurorehabilitation–biofeedback.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780307819826

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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

Author : HULING EAKIN USSERY (JR)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082071377

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CHAUCER'S PILGRIMS: THREE STUDIES IN THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.. by HULING EAKIN USSERY (JR) Pdf

Author : Eva Haji?ová,Petr Sgall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254429

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Prague Linguistic Circle Papers by Eva Haji?ová,Petr Sgall Pdf

Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and F. Cermák, those of quantitative linguistics by M. Tešitelová, of sentence structure by H.-H. Lieb, Y. Tobin, J. Panevová, T. Gross and J. Šabršula, discourse patterns are dealt with by J. Hoffmannová, S. Cmejrková and F. Šticha, phonology and graphemics by E. Battistella, A. Svoboda and P.A. Luelsdorff with S.V. Chesnokov, and the lexicon by L. Waugh and V. Straková.

Author : DDE NBU
Publisher : Directorate of Distance Education, University of North Bengal
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MA-English-Sem-1-Elective 104-18th century Block-1 by DDE NBU Pdf

Author : Dick Hess
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486497389

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Golf on the Moon by Dick Hess Pdf

From the author of Dover's Mental Gymnastics come these amusing and challenging new puzzles. Abounding in mathematical paradoxes and logic puzzles, the collection also features a variety of sports-related riddles and paradigms. These brainteasers vary in complexity from playful propositions to tough mathematical conundrums. Suitable for ages 12 and up. Solutions.

Author : Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Robert Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134927968

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Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers by Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Robert Wilkinson Pdf

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Author : Jon Cogburn,Mark Silcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781135859688

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Philosophy Through Video Games by Jon Cogburn,Mark Silcox Pdf

How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that by 2011 over 30 percent of US households will own a Wii console - about the same percentage that owned a television in 1953. In Philosophy Through Video Games, Jon Cogburn and Mark Silcox - philosophers with game industry experience - investigate the aesthetic appeal of video games, their effect on our morals, the insights they give us into our understanding of perceptual knowledge, personal identity, artificial intelligence, and the very meaning of life itself, arguing that video games are popular precisely because they engage with longstanding philosophical problems. Topics covered include: * The Problem of the External World * Dualism and Personal Identity * Artificial and Human Intelligence in the Philosophy of Mind * The Idea of Interactive Art * The Moral Effects of Video Games * Games and God's Goodness Games discussed include: Madden Football, Wii Sports, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, Sims Online, Second Life, Baldur's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Elder Scrolls, Zork, EverQuest Doom, Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto, Civilization, Mortal Kombat, Rome: Total War, Black and White, Aidyn Chronicles

Author : Ryszard Wójcicki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401569422

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Theory of Logical Calculi by Ryszard Wójcicki Pdf

The general aim of this book is to provide an elementary exposition of some basic concepts in terms of which both classical and non-dassicallogirs may be studied and appraised. Although quantificational logic is dealt with briefly in the last chapter, the discussion is chiefly concemed with propo gjtional cakuli. Still, the subject, as it stands today, cannot br covered in one book of reasonable length. Rather than to try to include in the volume as much as possible, I have put emphasis on some selected topics. Even these could not be roverrd completely, but for each topic I have attempted to present a detailed and precise t'Xposition of several basic results including some which are non-trivial. The roots of some of the central ideas in the volume go back to J. Luka siewicz's seminar on mathematicallogi.

Author : Anthony Speca
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004321120

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Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic by Anthony Speca Pdf

This book uncovers and examines the confusion in antiquity between Aristotle’s hypothetical syllogistic and Stoic logic, and offers a fresh perspective on the development of Aristotelian logic through to the early Middle Ages.

Author : Reinhard Kahle,Michael Rathjen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030494247

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The Legacy of Kurt Schütte by Reinhard Kahle,Michael Rathjen Pdf

This book on proof theory centers around the legacy of Kurt Schütte and its current impact on the subject. Schütte 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). Schütte inaugurated the important paradigm shift from finite proofs to infinite proofs and developed the mathematical tools for their analysis. Infinitary proof theory flourished in his hands in the 1960s, culminating in the famous bound Γ0 for the limit of predicative mathematics (a fame shared with Feferman). Later his interests shifted to developing infinite proof calculi for impredicative theories. Schütte had a keen interest in advancing ordinal analysis to ever stronger theories and was still working on some of the strongest systems in his eighties. The articles in this volume from leading experts close to his research, show the enduring influence of his work in modern proof theory. They range from eye witness accounts of his scientific life to developments at the current research frontier, including papers by Schütte himself that have never been published before.