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Enrico Martino: Arbitrary Reference in Logic and Mathematics, Buch

Enrico Martino, Massimiliano Carrara
Arbitrary Reference in Logic and Mathematics

Synthese Library -Band 490

This book develops a new approach to plural arbitrary reference and examines mereology, including considering four theses on the alleged innocence of mereology. The authors have advanced the notion of plu…

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Frédéric Patras
Contemporary Mathematical Thinking

Synthese Library -Band 474

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century. Representing a unique point of view combining mathematics, philosophy and history on this issue, it presents an original…

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Current Debates in Philosophy of Science

Synthese Library -Band 477

This volume collects previously unpublished contributions to the philosophy of science. What brings them together is a twofold goal: first and foremost, celebrating the name of Roberto Torretti, whose wor…

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EUR 131,42*

Lorenzo Azzano
Dispositional Reality

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Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world. In this book I advance an original a…

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Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues

Synthese Library -Band 491

This edited volume is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the complex and multifarious relationships between dreaming and memory. Featuring fifteen contributions by leading researchers, it…

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Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines

Synthese Library -Band 478

This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life scie…

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Richard L. Mendelsohn, Melvin Fitting
First-Order Modal Logic

Synthese Library -Band 480

This revised edition of the highly recommended book "First-Order Modal Logic", originally published in 1998, contains both new and modified chapters reflecting the latest scientific developments. Fitting …

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Ken Akiba
Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth

Synthese Library -Band 493

This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainl…

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Many-valued Semantics and Modal Logics: Essays in Honour of Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev

Synthese Library -Band 485

This volume is a collection of essays related to the work of Professor Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev, a distinguished Russian logician and philosopher renowned for his expertise in many-valued and modal logics.…

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Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

Synthese Library -Band 476

This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported by quantum mechanics. No one did more to promote this id…

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Perspectives on Deduction: Contemporary Studies in the Philosophy, History and Formal Theories of Deduction

Synthese Library -Band 481

This book provides philosophers and logicians with a broad spectrum of views on contemporary research on the problem of deduction, its justification and explanation. The variety of distinct approaches exe…

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Antonio Piccolomini d¿Aragona
Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding

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This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz s epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of proof-theoretic semantics. The theory of grounds is also provided …

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Jonathan Knowles
Representation, Experience, and Metaphysics

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This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy. This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Ric…

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Retraction Matters

Synthese Library -Band 488

This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the taking back of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and soluti…

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Michel Ghins
Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: A Metaphysics of Causal Powers

Synthese Library -Band 483

This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate reali…

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Ramón Alvarado
Simulating Science

Synthese Library -Band 479

This book provides a philosophical framework to understand computer simulations as scientific instruments. This is in sharp contrast to existing philosophical approaches on the subject, which have histori…

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The Roles of Representation in Visual Perception

Synthese Library -Band 486

This volume contains new papers addressing a number of new and traditional issues pertaining to the roles of representations in visual perception. Among these issues is the one concerning the nature of t…

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Carlo Cellucci
The Theory of Gödel

Synthese Library -Band 470

This book presents Gödel s incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics. Results are stated in the form most relevant for use in th…

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Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir

Synthese Library -Band 484

This book celebrates and explores some philosophical issues raised by the work of Alan Weir, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glasgow, having previously held positions at the Universities of…

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Truth 20/20: How a Global Pandemic Shaped Truth Research

Synthese Library -Band 489

This book offers a collection of papers on focal themes in truth research, including minimalism, pragmatism and pluralism, and philosophical logic. It further provides valuable hindsight with contemporary…

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EUR 153,32*