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Sto caricando le informazioni... Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Setsdi David Papineau
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An excellent introduction to technical Analytical Philosophy. The book is divided into three parts, a) Sets and Numbers b) Analyticity, A prioricity and Necessity c) Nature and uses of Probability My favorite chapter was chapter 6 -–Naming and Necessity. I learnt about Scope Distinctions, Rigid Designations. Where else would you learn these distinctions? There's a lot more on each topic. Deus Vult --Gottfried nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficultspecialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, Philosophical Devices is able to cover a wealth of material that is normally only available to specialists.The book contains four sections, each of three chapters. The first section is about sets and numbers, starting with the membership relation and ending with the generalized continuum hypothesis. The second is about analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. The third is about probability, outliningthe difference between objective and subjective probability and exploring aspects of conditionalization and correlation. The fourth deals with metalogic, focusing on the contrast between syntax and semantics, and finishing with a sketch of Godel's theorem.Philosophical Devices will be useful for university students who have got past the foothills of philosophy and are starting to read more widely, but it does not assume any prior expertise. All the issues discussed are intrinsically interesting, and often downright fascinating. It can be read withpleasure and profit by anybody who is curious about the technical infrastructure of contemporary philosophy. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book is divided into three parts,
a) Sets and Numbers
b) Analyticity, A prioricity and Necessity
c) Nature and uses of Probability
My favorite chapter was chapter 6 -–Naming and Necessity.
I learnt about Scope Distinctions, Rigid Designations.
Where else would you learn these distinctions?
There's a lot more on each topic.
Deus Vult
--Gottfried
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