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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, …
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 …
Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher
Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, …
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 …
Culture and Cultural Entities - Toward a New Unity of Science
Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology. …
Knowing from Words
Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the …
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 …
From Dedekind to Gödel
Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic …
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium
I first became interested in Husserl and Heidegger as long ago as 1980, when as an undergraduate at the Freie Universitat Berlin I studied the books by Professor Ernst Tugendhat. …
Action Theory and Social Science
This book is intended as a contribution to the foundations of the sciences of man, especially the social sciences. It has been argued with increasing frequency in recent years that …