Logic category: 1296 books
Reason's Traces
Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Reason's Traces addresses some of the key questions in the study of Indian and Buddhist thought: the analysis of personal identity and of ultimate reality, the interpretation of Tantric texts and traditions, and Tibetan approaches to the interpretation of Indian sources. Drawing on a wide range of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical background and context...
Science a Road to Wisdom
Collected Philosophical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason
Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
The great Buddhist scholars Santaraksita (725 - 88 CE.) and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but also with exegetes of other Indian religions, and they both traveled to Tibet during Buddhism's...
by Sandra Laugier
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers—but until now her books have never been published in English. Why...
by André Nies
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The interplay between computability and randomness has been an active area of research in recent years, reflected by ample funding in the USA, numerous workshops, and publications on the subject. The complexity and the randomness aspect of a set of natural numbers are closely related. Traditionally,...
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Belief Change through Direct Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as objects of choice is critically examined.
Descriptors are introduced as a versatile tool...
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
The Formation of Concepts in Modern Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
This enlightening survey of mathematical concept formation holds a natural appeal to philosophically minded readers, and no formal training in mathematics is necessary to appreciate its clear exposition of mathematic fundamentals. Rather than a system of theorems with completely developed proofs or...
Circularity
A Common Secret to Paradoxes, Scientific Revolutions and Humor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
"Circularity" is the story of a Janus-faced conceptual structure, that on the one hand led to deep scientific discoveries, and on the other hand is used to trick the mind into believing the impossible. Alongside mathematical revolutions that eventually led to the invention of the computer,...
Model Theory in Algebra, Analysis and Arithmetic
Cetraro, Italy 2012, Editors: H. Dugald Macpherson, Carlo Toffalori
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Presenting recent developments and applications, the book focuses on four main topics in current model theory: 1) the model theory of valued fields; 2) undecidability in arithmetic; 3) NIP theories; and 4) the model theory of real and complex exponentiation. Young researchers in model theory will...
Infinity
New Research Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowned...
by V.H. Klenk
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Wittgenstein's remarks on mathematics have not received the recogni tion they deserve; they have for the most part been either ignored, or dismissed as unworthy of the author of the Tractatus and the I nvestiga tions. This is unfortunate, I believe, and not at all fair, for these remarks are not...
by Ulianov Montano
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena. Building upon a view advanced by James McAllister, the assertion is that beauty in science does not confine itself to anecdotes...
God, Mind and Logical Space
A Revisionary Approach to Divinity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The book offers a novel approach to the idea of divinity in guise of a philosophical doctrine called 'Logical Pantheism', according to which the only way to establish the existence of God undeniably is by equating God with Logical Space.