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Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science
This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays …
Antiaesthetics
Although various sections of this work have been published separately in various journals and volumes their separate publication is wholly attributable to the exigencies of life in …
Aristotle’s Theory of the Syllogism
The present book is the English version of a monograph 'Die aristotelische Syllogistik', which first appeared ten years ago in the series of Abhand 1 lungen edited by the Academy …
Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka was born on January 12th, 1929. He received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Professor G. H. von Wright at the age of 24 in …
Essays on Explanation and Understanding
The present anthology consists of contributions to the philosophy of the humanities and the social sciences by European and American scholars. These writers represent not only the …
The Logic of Metaphor
1. Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology …
Logic, Language, and Probability
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, …
Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism
Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms. This book offers an account of the general features and …
Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics
This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J. R. Lucas' attempt to refute mechanism by means of G6del's theorem. I had made several …
Theoretical Knowledge
In Theoretical Knowledge an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed. A detailed analysis of the foundations of science performed by the …
Functions: selection and mechanisms
This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have …
Communication and Meaning
This essay contains material which will hopefully be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to those social scientists whose research concerns the analysis of …