Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 478
• This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of t... Lees meer

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

Benjamin Alan Burgis

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 458
• This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reaso... Lees meer

The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

Amihud Gilead

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 424
• This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual... Lees meer

Powers, Time and Free Will

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 451
• This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it... Lees meer

The Logic of Responsibility Voids

Hein Duijf

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 456
• This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed ... Lees meer

Axiomatic Method and Category Theory

Andrei Rodin

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 364
• This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion... Lees meer

Applications of Conceptual Spaces

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 359
• This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the cha... Lees meer

Explanation

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 302
• For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and psychology. We habitua... Lees meer

Brouwer Meets Husserl

Mark Van Atten

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 335
• Can the straight line be analysed mathematically such that it does not fall apart into a set of discrete points, as is usually done but through which ... Lees meer

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 233
• Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the... Lees meer

Representational Ideas

R a Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 250
• In Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland Watson argues that all intelligible theories of representation by ideas are based on like... Lees meer

The Logic of Discovery

S Kleiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 231
• Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (qu... Lees meer

Evidence and Hypothesis in Clinical Medical Science

John Alexander Pinkston

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 426
• In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate. None can accurately explain ... Lees meer

Contemporary Action Theory Volume 2: Social Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 267
• Contemporary Action Theory , Volume II ( Social Action ) is concerned with the philosophical and logical aspects of actions performed by several indiv... Lees meer

Decision Theory and the Future of AI

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 471
• This book appeals to students, researchers and professionals working in philosophy and related fields on decision theory applied to artificial intelli... Lees meer

Getting to Know the World Scientifically

Paul Needham

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 423
• This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students. The book is d... Lees meer

Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 376
• This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and ph... Lees meer

How Colours Matter to Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 388
• Examines the logical and linguistic aspects of colours as philosophical problems Offers a historically informed discussion of colours Coverage bridges... Lees meer

On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making

A Szaniawski

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 271
• Klemens Szaniawski was born in Warsaw on March 3, 1925. He began to study philosophy in the clandestine Warsaw University during World War II. Tadeusz... Lees meer

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

Nino B Cocchiarella

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 339
• Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms. This book offers an account of the g... Lees meer

The Dawn of Cognitive Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 295
• Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation... Lees meer

Philosophy of Astrophysics

• Paperback | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 472
• This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysi... Lees meer

Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding

Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 469
• This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz's epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of proof-theore... Lees meer

Retraction Matters

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthese Library | nr. 488
• This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "taking back" of the conventional or deontic effects of a pre... Lees meer