Analysis and interpretation in the exact sciences : essays in honour of William Demopoulos / Mélanie Frappier, Derek H. Brown, Robert DiSalle, editors.
"The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in gen...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer,
[2012]
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| Series: | University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ;
78. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | Festschrift for William Demopoulos. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9400725817 9789400725812 9401783543 9789401783545 1280798564 9781280798566 9400725825 9789400725829 |