Idealization VII: Structuralism, Idealization and Approximation
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004457410
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004457410
Author : Jerzy Brzeziński
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042003033
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004457690
Contents: Preface. - Introduction. - Science as a caricature of reality. - Three methodological revolutions. - The method of idealization. - Explanations and applications. - Truth and idealization. - A generalization of idealization. - References.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004333215
Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of philosophical enquiry. Despite these ancient roots and after the great debate that characterised the empirical and rationalistic tradition, interest in the problem has unfortunately been absent in large measure from the mainstream of mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. It seems that there is a gap between the epistemological theorization, in which it is difficult to find new insights on the problem of abstraction, and the historical studies concerning the development of philosophical thought. Such studies, however, present a more fertile ground for such insights. Here the reader will find presented for the first time a collection of papers about the topic, considered from an historical point of view together with an awareness of the need for building a bridge between historical research and theoretical speculation. Accordingly the volume consists of both general overviews which sketch the signifcance and the fortunes of abstraction in science, philosophy and logic (the first part) and historical case studies which focus on abstraction in particular thinkers (the second part). This volume is of interest for both general philosophers and historians of philosophy.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004457631
Here is presented for the first time a comprehensive review and analysis of the several roles played by idealization procedures in the logic, mathematics and models that lie at the heart of modern, twentieth century physics. It is only through idealization of one form or another that the objects and processes of modern physics become tractable. The essays in this volume will be of interest to all those who are concerned with the uses of models in physics, and the relationships between models and the real world. The essays in this volume cover the role of idealization in all the main areas of modern physics, ranging from quantum theory, relativity theory and cosmology to chaos theory.
Author : Adolfo García de la Sienra
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042012127
This is a controversial collection of brand new papers by some outstanding philosophers and scholars. Its aim is to offer comprehensive theistic replies to the traditional arguments against the existence of God.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900445778X
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004457801
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004457658
Concepts of totalitarianism have undergone an academic revival in recent years, particularly since the breakdown of communist systems in Europe in 1989-91: the totalitarian paradigm, so it seems to many scholars today, had been discarded prematurely in the heat of the Cold War. The demise of communism as a social system is, however, not only an important cause of the recurring attractiveness of the totalitarian paradigm, but provides at the same time new evidence and, correspondingly, new problems of explanation for all approaches in communist studies and totalitarianism theory in particular. This book contains articles by philosophers, social scientists and historians who reassess the validity of the totalitarian approach in the light of the recent historical developments in Eastern Europe. A first group of authors focus on the analytical usefulness and explanatory power of classic concepts of totalitarianism after having observed the failed reforms of the Gorbachev-era and the collapse of Europe's communist systems in 1989-91. In these contributions the totalitarian paradigm is contrasted with other approaches with respect to cognitive power as well as normative implications. In the second group of contributions the focus is on the reassessment of methodological and theoretical problems of the classic concepts of totalitarianism. The authors attempt to reinterpret the classic concepts so as to meet the objections which have been put forward against those concepts during the last decades. The study thereby traces some of the intellectual roots of the totalitarian paradigm that precede the outbreak of the Cold War, such as the work of Sigmund Neumann and Franz Borkenau. It also focuses on the most famous authors in the field: Hannah Arendt and Carl Joachim Friedrich. In addition it discusses theorists of totalitarianism like Juan Linz, whose contributions to totalitarianism theory have too often been overlooked.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004333886
Finland is internationally known as one of the leading centers of twentieth century analytic philosophy. This volume offers for the first time an overall survey of the Finnish analytic school. The rise of this trend is illustrated by original articles of Edward Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Jaakko Hintikka. Contributions of Finnish philosophers are then systematically discussed in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, ethics and social philosophy. Metaphilosophical reflections on the nature of philosophy are highlighted by the Finnish dialogue between analytic philosophy, phenomenology, pragmatism, and critical theory.