Mechanization Of Reasoning In A Historical Perspective

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Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457429
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Download or read book Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is written jointly by Witold Marciszewski, who contributed the introductory and the three subsequent chapters, and Roman Murawski who is the author of the next ones - those concerned with the 19th century and the modern inquiries into formalization, algebraization and mechanization of reasonings. Besides the authors there are other persons, as well as institutions, to whom the book owes its coming into being. The study which resulted in this volume was carried out in the Historical Section of the research project Logical Systems and Algorithms for Automatic Testing of Reasoning, 1986-1990, in which participated nine Polish universities; the project was coordinated by the Department of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the Bia??l??ystok Branch of the University of Warsaw, and supported by the Ministry of Education (some of its results are reported in (Srzednicki (Ed.) 1987). The major part of the project was focussed on the software for computer-aided theorem proving called Mizar MSE (Multi-Sorted first-order logic with Equality, reported in (Marciszewski 1994a)) due to Dr. Andrzej Trybulec. He and other colleagues deserve a grateful mention for a hands-on experience and theoretical stimulants owed to their collaboration.

Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective

Author : Witold Marciszewski
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837902
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective written by Witold Marciszewski and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is written jointly by Witold Marciszewski, who contributed the introductory and the three subsequent chapters, and Roman Murawski who is the author of the next ones - those concerned with the 19th century and the modern inquiries into formalization, algebraization and mechanization of reasonings. Besides the authors there are other persons, as well as institutions, to whom the book owes its coming into being.The study which resulted in this volume was carried out in the Historical Section of the research project Logical Systems and Algorithms for Automatic Testing of Reasoning,1986-1990, in which participated nine Polish universities; the project was coordinated by the Department of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the Bia??l??ystok Branch of the University of Warsaw, and supported by the Ministry of Education (some of its results are reported in (Srzednicki (Ed.) 1987). The major part of the project was focussed on the software for computer-aided theorem proving called Mizar MSE (Multi-Sorted first-order logic with Equality, reported in (Marciszewski 1994a)) due to Dr. Andrzej Trybulec. He and other colleagues deserve a grateful mention for a hands-on experience and theoretical stimulants owed to their collaboration.

Structuralist Knowledge Representation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457801
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Structuralist Knowledge Representation written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mechanizing Proof

Author : Donald MacKenzie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262632959
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Mechanizing Proof written by Donald MacKenzie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most aspects of our private and social lives—our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security—now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over the last half century from the perspectives of history and sociology. His discussion draws on the technical literature of computer science and artificial intelligence and on extensive interviews with participants. MacKenzie argues that our culture now contains two ideals of proof: proof as traditionally conducted by human mathematicians, and formal, mechanized proof. He describes the systems constructed by those committed to the latter ideal and the many questions those systems raise about the nature of proof. He looks at the primary social influence on the development of automated proof—the need to predict the behavior of the computer systems upon which human life and security depend—and explores the involvement of powerful organizations such as the National Security Agency. He concludes that in mechanizing proof, and in pursuing dependable computer systems, we do not obviate the need for trust in our collective human judgment.

Essays in Logic and Ontology

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332960
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Logic and Ontology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to present essays centered upon the subjects of Formal Ontology and Logical Philosophy. The idea of investigating philosophical problems by means of logical methods was intensively promoted in Torun by the Department of Logic of Nicolaus Copernicus University during last decade. Another aim of this book is to present to the philosophical and logical audience the activities of the Torunian Department of Logic during this decade. The papers in this volume contain the results concerning Logic and Logical Philosophy, obtained within the confines of the projects initiated by the Department of Logic and other research projects in which the Torunian Department of Logic took part.

Logic, Probability and Science

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457763
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Logic, Probability and Science written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Charles MORGAN: Canonical models and probabilistic semantics. - Francois LEPAGE: A many-valued probabilistic logic. - Piers RAWLING: The exchange paradox, finite additivity, and the principle of dominance. - Susan VINEBERG: The logical status of conditionalization and its role in confirmation. - Deborah MAYO: Science, error statistics, and arguing from error. - Mark N. LANCE: The best is the enemy of the good: Bayesian epistemology as a case study in unhelpful idealization. - Robert B. GARDNER & Michael C. WOOTEN: An application of Bayes' theorem to population genetics. - Peter D. JOHNSON, Jr.: Another look at group selection."

Evandro Agazzi: Right, Wrong and Science

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333223
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Evandro Agazzi: Right, Wrong and Science written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving the problem of the negative impact of science and technology on society and the environment is indeed the greatest challenge of our time. To date, this challenge has been taken up by few professional philosophers of science, making this volume a welcome contribution to the general debate. Agazzi’s treatment involves viewing modern science and technology as each constituting systems. Against the background of this approach, he provides a penetrating analysis of science, technology and ethics, and their interrelations. Agazzi sees the solution to the problem as lying in the moral sphere and including a multilateral assumption of responsibility on the part of decision makers both within and outside of science.

Analytic Philosophy in Finland

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333886
Total Pages : 618 pages
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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy in Finland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knowledge Cultures

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 940120294X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Cultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares the western ideas of knowledge with the African. It aims at creating a mirror through which the western knowledge culture can look at itself through an unusual and interesting angle. The culture of Sub-Saharan Africa is the substance from which we, in this book, have tried to construe an epistemological mirror.

To be Or Not to Be? Is that the Question? And Other Studies in Ontology, Epistemology and Logic

Author : Leon Gumański
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042004085
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book To be Or Not to Be? Is that the Question? And Other Studies in Ontology, Epistemology and Logic written by Leon Gumański and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume may be of interest for all those who wish that philosophy had a scientific character. As an adherent of the Polish Lvov-Warsaw Philosophical School, the author of this collection of papers endeavours to clarify some basic notions of epistemology, ontology and psychology of cognitive acts, such as judgment, existence, being etc. In his investigations he refrains from unnecessary rejection of common-sense knowledge but at the same time searches for suitable patterns in contemporary sciences. Regarding formal logic as a fundamental tool for the precise expression and justification of thoughts, the author tries to clear logic from ontological commitments, shows how to construct logic of norms and how to use safely different definitions in research works. The book presents a new conception of antinomies and an innovatory approach to realistic epistemology. Moreover, some applications of logical methods are illustrated by examples of semantical analyses of the general notion of similarity and the biological concept of homology.

In the World of Signs

Author : Jacek Juliusz Jadacki
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042003897
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book In the World of Signs written by Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers almost the whole range of semiotics: the conceptions of meaning, the appearance of meaning units in semiosis, the dichotomy analyticity/syntheticity, the formal condition of good translation, the metaphorical change in fine arts, the figurativeness in modern literary theories, the metaphor in computer translation, the conditionals with egocentric predicates, the evolution of the notion of cause, the temporal relation in conditionals, the structure of passive voice, the semantics of to think, the reasoning and rationality, the non-formalized reasoning, the operation of acceptance, the principle of non-contradiction, the relation semiotics/logic/philosophy, the interdisciplinarity and exactness, the notion of imprecision, the interpretation of some semiotic notions (i.a. semantic field of terms) in terms of mathematics, the description of categorial grammars in terms of model theory, the human knowledge as moral problem, the conceptualization of the development of knowledge by means of the notion of meme, the cultural relations between some European countries, the typology of scientists, the semiotic studies of some Spanish, Irish, Czech, Polish and Norwegian works of literature, the semiotic aspects of music, television and the whole sphere of artifacts, the history of semiotics (Plato, Gonsung Long, Descartes, Fu Yen, Peirce, Brwal, Lotman, Langer).

Idealization X: The Richness of Idealization

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457690
Total Pages : 541 pages
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Download or read book Idealization X: The Richness of Idealization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457798
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of essays about prominent Polish 20th century philosophers of science and scientists who were concerned with problems in the philosophy of science. The contribution made by Polish logicians, especially those from the Lvov-Warsaw School, like Łukasiewicz, Kotarbiński, Czeżowski or Ajdukiewicz, is already well known. One of the aims of the volume is to offer a broader perspective. The papers collected here are devoted to the work of such philosophers as Zawirski, Metallmann, Dąmbska, Mehlberg, Szaniawski and Giedymin as well as to the work of such scientists as Smoluchowski, Fleck, Infeld and Chyliński. The introduction to the volume, written by the editor and Jacek Jadacki, presents an overview of the history of the Polish philosophy of science from the foundation of the Cracow Academy (in 1364) to the present.

On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457771
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Leon KOJ: Methodology and values. - Leon KOJ: Science as system. - Adam GROBLER: Explanation and epistemic virtue. - Piotr GIZA: Intelligent computer systems and theory comparison. - Henryk OGRYZKO-WIEWIEROWSKI: Methods of social choice of scientific theories. - Kazimierz JODKOWSKI: Is the causal theory of reference a remedy for ontological incommensurability? - Wolfgang BALZER: On approximative reduction. - C. ULISES MOULINES: Is there genuinely scientific progress? - Adam JONKISZ: On relative progress in science."

Knowledge and Faith

Author : Jan Salamucha
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457828
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Knowledge and Faith written by Jan Salamucha and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Salamucha was born on the 10th of June 1903 in Warsaw and murdered on the 11th of August 1944 in Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising very early on in his scholarly career. He is the most original representative of the branch of the Lvov-Warsaw School known as the Cracow Circle. The Circle was a grouping of scholars who were interested in reconstructing scholasticism and Christian philosophy in general by means of mathematical logic. As Jan Lukasiewicz’s successor in the area of logic and Konstanty Michalski’s student in the area of the history of medieval thought, Salamucha had an excellent preparation for this task. His main achievements include a masterful logical analysis of the proof ex motu for the existence of God, a modern interpretation of analogical notions and a comprehensive approach to the problem of essence. He also contributed several historical studies: he examined Aristotle’s theory of deduction (and found contradictions in it), he reconstructed William Ockham’s propositional logic and established the authenticity of his treatise on insolubilia, and he identified the historical sources of the antinomies in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He did not shy away from popularizing philosophy, and in that work he was able to elucidate rather than oversimplify the complexities of philosophy.

Quine

Author : Lieven Decock
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012417
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Quine written by Lieven Decock and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Naturalistic epistemology, murder and suicide? But what about the promises! (Ton Derksen). - Naturalism and rationality (Christopher Hookway). - Quine's hypothetical theory of language learning: a comparison of different conceptualschemes of their logic (Mia Gosselin). - Quine and innate similarity spaces (Jaap van Brakel). - Quine and Davidson on the structure of empirical knowledge (Dirk Koppelberg). - Empathy and charity (Eva Picardi). - Quine: indeterminacy, 'robust realism', and truth (Sandra Laugier). - Quine and Putnam on conceptual relativity and reference: theft or honest toil? (Roger Vergauwen).

A Passage to the Idea for a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science

Author : Dimitri Ginev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457526
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to the Idea for a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science written by Dimitri Ginev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author has brought together his long-standing interests in theory of scientific rationality and hermeneutic ontology by developing a hermeneutic alternative to analytic (and naturalist) epistemology of science. The hermeneutic philosophy of science is less the name of a new field of philosophical than a demand for a repetition of the basic philosophical questions of science from hermeneutic point of view. The book addresses chiefly two subjects: (I) The hermeneutic response to the models of rational reconstruction of scientific knowledge; (II) The specificity of hermeneutico-ontological approach to the cognitive pluralism in science.