Reasoning about Theoretical Entities
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2003
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-238-601-4 (ISBN)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-238-601-4 (ISBN)
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Reductionism is one of those philosophical myths that are either enthusiastically embraced or wholeheartedly rejected. This book aims to give reductionism its day in court, by developing several versions of the reductionist project and assessing their merits.
Reductionism is one of those philosophical myths that are either enthusiastically embraced or wholeheartedly rejected. And, like all other philosophical myths, it rarely gets serious consideration. "Reasoning About Theoretical Entities" strives to give reductionism its day in court, as it were, by explicitly developing several versions of the reductionist project and assessing their merits within the framework of modern symbolic logic. Not since the days of Carnap's "Aufbau" has reductionism received such close attention (albeit in a necessarily restricted and regimented setting such as that of modern mathematical logic). As such this book fills a void in the philosophical literature and presents a challenge to every would-be (anti-)reductionist.
Reductionism is one of those philosophical myths that are either enthusiastically embraced or wholeheartedly rejected. And, like all other philosophical myths, it rarely gets serious consideration. "Reasoning About Theoretical Entities" strives to give reductionism its day in court, as it were, by explicitly developing several versions of the reductionist project and assessing their merits within the framework of modern symbolic logic. Not since the days of Carnap's "Aufbau" has reductionism received such close attention (albeit in a necessarily restricted and regimented setting such as that of modern mathematical logic). As such this book fills a void in the philosophical literature and presents a challenge to every would-be (anti-)reductionist.
Definite Descriptions; Virtual Objects; Cardinal Arithmetic; The Canonical Simulation; Iterated Virtuality in Cardinal Arithmetic; Ordinals.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.11.2003 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Advances in Logic S. ; v. 3 |
| Verlagsort | Singapore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 981-238-601-7 / 9812386017 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-981-238-601-4 / 9789812386014 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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