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Argument, Inference and Dialectic
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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… |
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Bayesian Argumentation
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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… |
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Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction
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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 … |
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Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics
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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… |
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Figuring Space
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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… |
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The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions
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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… |
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Lazare and Sadi Carnot
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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… |
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Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity
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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… |
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Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences
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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… |
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