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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos, The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 78
ISBN/EAN: 9789400725812
Umbreit-Nr.: 1806826
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 268 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 26.02.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Inhaltsangabe1 Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Modern Physics; Robert DiSalle.- Part I Perception, Language, and Realism.- 2 Seeing Things Move; Michael Dummett.- 3 A Critical Examination of Sellars's Theory of Perception; Anil Gupta.- 4 Long Ago, in a Context Far Away; Mark Wilson.- 5 Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the "Sound" of Meaning; Sylvain Bromberger.- 6 Carnap's Philosophical Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumentalism; Michael Friedman.- Part II Foundations of Mathematics.- 7 Frege and Benacerraf's Problem; Crispin Wright.- 8 More on Frege and Hilbert; Michael Hallett.- 9 The Axiom of Choice in an Elementary Theoryof Operations and Sets; John L. Bell.- Part III Foundations of Physics.- 10 Quantum Mechanics and Ontology; Hilary Putnam.- 11 Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements: A Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability; Itamar Pitowsky.- 12 Is Information the Key?; Jeffrey Bub.- 13 Correlations and Counterfactuals: The EPR Illusion; Allen Stairs.- 14 A Remark About the "Geodesic Principle" in General Relativity; David B. Malament.- Bibliography of the Publications of William Demopoulos to 2011.- Doctoral Theses to 2011.- Index.
- Kurztext
- Inhaltsangabe1 Philosophy of Physics.- 1 Prof. Harvey Brown, Philosophy Department, University of Oxford: "Solving the measurement problem: de Broglie-Bohm loses out to Everett".- 2 Prof. Jeffrey Bub, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland: "Two dogmas about quantum mechanics".- 3 Prof. Hilary Putnam, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University: "Quantum mechanics and ontology.- 4 Prof. Allen Stairs, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland: "A loose and separate certainty".- 5 Prof. David Malament, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California at Irvine: "A Remark about the 'Geodesic Principle' in General Relativity".- 2 Philosophy of Mathematics.-[6 Prof. Crispin Wright, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews: "The metaphysics of abstraction".- 7 Prof. Peter Clark, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews: "Henri Poincaré and the diagnosis of the contradictions".- 8 Prof. Michael Hallett, Philosophy Department, McGill University: "Hilbert on mathematical existence".- 3 Philosophy of Language and the Analytical-Empirical Tradition.- 9 Prof. Michael Friedman, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University: "Carnap on theoretical terms: structuralism without metaphysics".- 10 Prof. Erin Eaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland: "Biological species: a case study for essentialism about natural kinds".- 11 Prof. Sylvain Bromberger, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT: "Ambiguity, vagueness, and the 'sound' of meaning".- 12 Prof. Anil Gupta, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: "The given in conscious experience".- 13 Mark Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: "Long Ago, in a Context Far Away".