Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-language hand- books of logic and numerous monographs on topical discoveries in the foundations of mathematics.
When asked in 1962 on what he was working Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz replied: Several years ago Polish Scientific Publishers suggested that I pre- pare a new edition of The Logical Foundations of Teaching, which I wrote 1 before 1939 as a contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Education.
The papers collected in this volume were written over a period of some eight or nine years, with some still earlier material incorporated in one of them.
This book is intended to serve as an advanced text and reference work on modal logic, a subject of growing importance which has applications to philosophy and linguistics.
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.
The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.
Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such.
This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds.
Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s.
The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.
Information technology has been, in recent years, under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices and systems which help/ replace the human in his daily activity.
The approach to probability theory followed in this book (which differs radically from the usual one, based on a measure-theoretic framework) characterizes probability as a linear operator rather than as a measure, and is based on the concept of coherence, which can be framed in the most general view of conditional probability.
Quantum theory is the most successful of all physical theories: it has a towering mathematical structure, a vast range of accurate predictions, and technological applications.
Der vorliegende Band enthält den Text der dreistündigen Vorlesung, die Husserl unter dem Titel `Logik' in Göttingen im Wintersemester 1902/03 gehalten hat.
Im vorliegenden Band wird der Text von Husserls Göttinger Vorlesung `Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie' vom Winter 1902/03 veröffentlicht, in der er erstmals eine phänomenologische Erkenntnistheorie zu entwerfen suchte.
Der vorliegende Band enthält Husserls einzige weitgehend vollständig erhaltene Vorlesung aus seiner Hallenser Zeit, die er 1896 unter dem Titel `Logik' gehalten und im Hinblick auf eine Veröffentlichung teilweise bearbeitet hat.
Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts.
The Entretiens of the Institut International de Philosophie for 1978 were held in connection with the World Congress of Philosophy in Dusseldorf, from August 27 to September 1.
