The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism - Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, With his responses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)

This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be tween minds and machines, and the nature of rules that guide be havior. In this volume honoring Arthur W. Burks, the philosophical breadth of his work is thus manifested in the diverse aspects of that work chosen for discussion and development by the contributors to his Festschrift. Part II consists of a book-length essay by Burks in which he lays out his philosophy of logical mechanism while responding to the papers in Part I. In doing so, he provides a unified and coherent context for the range of problems raised in Part I, and he highlights interesting relationships among the topics that might otherwise have gone un noticed. Part II is followed by a bibliography of Burks's published works."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Synthese Library, 206
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1990
Editors:	M. H Salmon
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	552
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
ISBN-13:	978-9401069335
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	9401069336
Barcode:	9789401069335

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