Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy [electronic resource] : Volume II / by W. Stegmüller.

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Link
ISBN
9789401011327
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/10143
Yazar
Stegmüller, W.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1977.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1977.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIII, 294 p. online resource.
Dizi
Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2542-8292 ; 91
İçindekiler Notu
1. The So-Called Circle of Understanding -- 2. ’The Problem of Causality’ -- 3. Explanation, Prediction, Scientific Systematization and Non-Explanatory Information -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On Possible Conventions Governing the Use of ’Explanation’ and ’Prediction’ -- 3. An Additional Argument of Plausibility in favour of the Counterthesis -- 4. A Systematic Approach -- 5. Non-Explanatory Information -- 4. The Problem of Induction: Hume’s Challenge and the Contemporary Answers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Humean Challenge -- 3. Deductivism: K. Popper -- 4. Inductivism 1 -- 5. Inductivism 2 -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- 5. Carnap’s Normative Theory of Inductive Probability -- 6. Logical Understanding and the Dynamics of Theories -- 7. Structures and Dynamics of Theories: Some Reflections on J.D. Sneed and T.S. Kuhn -- 8. Language and Logic -- 1. Preface -- 2. The Functions of ‘Is’ -- 3. ‘All’, ‘Something’, and ‘Nothing’ -- 4. ‘I’, ‘You’, ‘He’, ‘She’, ‘It’ -- 5. ‘Not’, ‘And’, ‘Or’, ‘If …Then’ -- 6. Logical Truth -- 7. ‘The’ -- 8. ‘It is Possible That … ’, ‘It is Necessary That …’ -- 9. Remarks on the Completeness of Logical Systems Relative to the Validity-Concepts of P. Lorenzen and K. Lorenz -- Index of Names.
Özet, vb.
These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world. The first three essays in Vol. 1 deal with historical themes. In each case I have attempted a rational reconstruction which, as far as possible, meets con­ temporary standards of exactness. In The Problem of Universals Then and Now some ideas of W.V. Quine and N. Goodman are used to create a modem sketch of the history of the debate on universals beginning with Plato and ending with Hao Wang's System :E. The second article concerns Kant's Philosophy of Science. By analyzing his position vis-a-vis I. Newton, Christian Wolff, and D. Hume, it is shown that for Kant the very notion of empirical knowledge was beset with a funda­ mental logical difficulty. In his metaphysics of experience Kant offered a solution differing from all prior as well as subsequent attempts aimed at the problem of establishing a scientific theory. The last of the three historical papers utilizes some concepts of modem logic to give a precise account of Wittgenstein's so-called Picture Theory of Meaning. E. Stenius' interpretation of this theory is taken as an intuitive starting point while an intensional variant of Tarski's concept of a relational system furnishes a technical instrument. The concepts of model world and of logical space, together with those of homomorphism and isomorphism be­ tween model worlds and between logical spaces, form the conceptual basis of the reconstruction.
Konu
Logic.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Logic.
Epistemology.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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