Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Argument, Inference and Dialectic Argument, Inference and Dialectic Robert C. Pinto This volume contains 12 papers addressed to researchers and advanced students in informal logic and related fields, such as argumentation, formal logic, and communications. Among the issues are attem… OL19827783W
Bayesian Argumentation Bayesian Argumentation Frank Zenker <p>Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge… OL19830053W
Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction Arturo Carsetti As is well known, cognition is not only a self-organising process. It is also a co-operative and coupled process. If we consider the external environment as a complex, multiple and stratified Source … OL19847982W
Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics Daniel Greenberger From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological consequences. While hitherto there has been no satisfactory philosophical analys… OL19847986W
Figuring Space Figuring Space Gilles Châtelet In Figuring Space Gilles Châtelet seeks to capture the problem of intuition of mobility in philosophy, mathematics and physics. This he does by means of virtuality and intensive quantities (Oresme, L… OL19849962W
The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions Claudio Garola In The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions, leading Italian researchers involved in different aspects of the foundations and history of quantum mechanics are bro… OL19851050W
Lazare and Sadi Carnot Lazare and Sadi Carnot Charles C. Gillispie Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi… OL19882336W
Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity Tomasz Placek This book is the first modern examination of the philosophical foundations of intuitionism since Oscar Becker's (1927) Mathematische Existenz. Placek examines the three most widely-known arguments fo… OL19886265W
Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences Ursula Klein This book provides novel insights into the practices of representing invisible objects in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century laboratory sciences. It tackles questions such as: How did scientifi… OL19907252W