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.
Logic has attained in our century a development incomparably greater than in any past age of its long history, and this has led to such an enrichment and proliferation of its aspects, that the problem of some kind of unified recom- prehension of this discipline seems nowadays unavoidable.
This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a workshop on formal seman- tics of natural languages which was held in Tiibingen from the 1st to the 3rd of December 1977.
This essay contains material which will hopefully be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to those social scientists whose research concerns the analysis of communication, verbal or non-verbal.
The aim of the first volume of the present Handbook of Philosophical Logic is essentially two-fold: First of all, the chapters in this volume should provide a concise overview of the main parts of classical logic.
The chapters in the present volume go beyond 'classical' extensional logic with respect to one important factor: they all include among the semantic constituents representations of so-called 'possible worlds'.
