Title | Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala [electronic resource] : Papers from the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science / edited by Dag Prawitz, Dag Westerstรฅhl |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8311-4 |
Descript | X, 614 p. online resource |
Philosophical Logic -- On the Interpretation of Attitude Logics -- Taking Belief Bases Seriously -- Montague-Gallinโs Intensional Logic, Structured Meanings and Scottโs Domains -- The Logic of Belief Change and Nonadditive Probability -- How to Model Relational Belief Revision -- Methodology -- A Probabilistic Foundation of Statistical Mechanics -- Innate Knowledge and Scientific Rationality -- Belief Revision: Subjectivist Principles and Practice -- Unification and Support: Harmonic Law Ratios Measure the Mass of the Sun -- Theoretical Explanation and Unification -- From Phenomena to Metaphysics -- How to Fix a Prior -- Probability, Induction and Decision Theory -- Philosophical Applications of Kolmogorovโs Complexity Measure -- Towards a Mechanization of Real-life Decisions -- The Hypothesis of Nash Equilibrium and its Bayesian Justification -- History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science -- The Ontological Foundations of Bolzanoโs Philosophy of Mathematics -- Anticipations of Progress: Historical Evidence for a Realist Epistemology -- Mathematical Reasoning and Pragmatism in Peirce -- Logic in Transition: The Logic Calculi of Hilbert (1905) and Zermelo (1908) -- The Idea of Structureless Points and Whiteheadโs Critique of Einstein -- Ethics of Science and Technology -- Epistemic Honesty -- In Defence of Science -- Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and Computer Science -- What is Structuralism? -- The Limits of Formalization -- Ontologic Versus Epistemologic: Some Strands in the Development of Logic, 1837โ1957 -- Foundations of Physical Sciences -- Outcome Dependence and Stochastic Einstein Nonlocality -- A Path from Wattโs Engine to the Principle of Heat Transfer -- Practical Reasoning in the Foundations of Quantum Theory -- Symmetries in the Physical Sciences -- Holes in the Hole Argument -- The Cognitive Status of the Reconstruction of Mechanisms in Modern Organic Chemistry. The Reconstruction of the Mechanism of the Acidic Hydrolysis of Nucleosides -- Foundations of Biological Sciences -- Darwinism and the Moral Status of Animals -- Mereology, Set Theory, Biological Ontology -- Simplicity in Theory-Construction and Evaluation: The Case of the Chromosome Theory of Mendelian Inheritance -- Foundations of Cognitive Science and AI (Including Computational Perspectives in Psychology) -- The Alleged Autonomy, of Psychology and the Social Sciences -- Foundations of Linguistics -- Plural Reference and Unbound Pronouns -- What is Logical Form? -- On an Argument Against Semantic Compositionality