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Télécharger le livre : The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics
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The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics
John L. Bell
This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical. The first section covers the history of these ideas in philosophy.  Chapter one, entitled ‘The continuous and...

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Parution : 2019-09-09
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105,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Poincaré, Philosopher of Science
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Poincaré, Philosopher of Science
María De Paz , Robert Disalle
This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincaré Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincaré's philosophy of science—both its...

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Parution : 2014-04-11
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
Derek Brown , Robert Disalle , Melanie Frappier
The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual...

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Parution : 2012-02-24
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Télécharger le livre : Structural Realism
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Structural Realism
Elaine Landry , Dean Rickles
Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on...

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Parution : 2012-01-05
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms
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Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms
Peter Clark , David Devidi , Michael Hallett
The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L. Bell to celebrate his 60th birthday by colleagues, former students, friends and admirers. Like Bell’s own work, the contributions cross boundaries into several inter-related fields.The...

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Parution : 2011-03-23
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Physical Theory and its Interpretation
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Physical Theory and its Interpretation
William Demopoulos , Itamar Pitowsky
JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science. Later we were colleagues atWestern Ontario. Our friendship and collaboration owe a great...

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Parution : 2006-11-03
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Télécharger le livre : A Logical Approach to Philosophy
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A Logical Approach to Philosophy
David Devidi , Tim Kenyon
Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on Nov. 1, he died of a massive stroke, at the age of 44. Solomon was well liked by those who got the chance to know him—it...

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Parution : 2006-07-10
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Télécharger le livre : Intuition and the Axiomatic Method
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Intuition and the Axiomatic Method
Emily Carson , Renate Huber
Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant’s theory of intuition to be obsolete. But this only represents one side of the story concerning Kant, intuition and twentieth century...

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Parution : 2006-07-02
Collection : The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
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147,69 €