Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science [electronic resource] : Part II: Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Economics Essays in Honor of Hugues Leblanc / edited by Mathieu Marion, Robert S. Cohen.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789400901131
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/13145
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1996.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 308 p. online resource.
Dizi
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 2214-7942 ; 178
İçindekiler Notu
Philosophy of Biology -- Teleological Arguments from a Methodological Viewpoint -- Natural Selection and Selection Type Theories -- Function, Normality and Temporality -- Natural Selection and Indexical Representation -- Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science -- Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and the Symbol-Matter Problem -- Making Colored Objects -- Why Marr’s Theory of Vision Is Not Anti-Individualist -- “Three Thought Experiments Revisited” -- Davidson on Norms and the Explanation of Behavior -- Decision Theory and Philosophy of Economics -- Economics and Intentionality -- How Could Anyone Be Irrational? -- “If Cows Had Wings, We’d Carry Big Umbrellas.” An Almost Number-Free Note on Newcomb’s Problem -- The Belief-Desire Model of Decision Theory Needs a Third Component: Prospective Intentions -- Decision Theory, Individualistic Explanations and Social Darwinism -- Epistemological Studies -- Dispositions to Explain -- Belief-Sentences: Outline of a Nominalistic Approach -- Verifieationism and the Molecular View of Language -- Notes on the Authors -- Name Index.
Özet, vb.
By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men­ tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy began to be taught later, during the second half of the 19th century. The major influence on English-speaking philosophers was, at least initially, that of Scottish Empiricism. On the other hand, the strong influence of the Catholic Church on French-Canadian society meant that the staff of the facultes of the French-speaking universities consisted, until recently, almost entirely of Thomist philosophers. There was accordingly little or no work in modern Formal Logic and Philosophy of Science and precious few contacts between the philosophical communities. In the late forties, Hugues Leblanc was a young student wanting to learn Formal Logic. He could not find anyone in Quebec to teach him and he went to study at Harvard University under the supervision of W. V. Quine. His best friend Maurice L' Abbe had left, a year earlier, for Princeton to study with Alonzo Church. After receiving his Ph. D from Harvard in 1948, Leblanc started his profes­ sional career at Bryn Mawr College, where he stayed until 1967. He then went to Temple University, where he taught until his retirement in 1992, serving as Chair of the Department of Philosophy from 1973 until 1979.
Konu
Science __ Philosophy.
Sociology __ Methodology.
Philosophy of mind.
Biology __ Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Sociological Methods.
Philosophy of Mind.
Philosophy of Biology.
Philosophy.
Diğer Yazarlar
Marion, Mathieu.
Cohen, Robert S.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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