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This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh's
scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh's interest
from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached
Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, it traces the academic
trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new
avenues in research. This volume is part of Springer's book series
Outstanding Contributions to Logic, and honours Rohit Parikh and
his works in many ways. Parikh is a leader in the realm of ideas,
offering concepts and definitions that enrich the field and lead to
new research directions. Parikh has contributed to a variety of
areas in logic, computer science and game theory. In mathematical
logic his contributions have been in recursive function theory,
proof theory and non-standard analysis; in computer science, in the
areas of modal, temporal and dynamic logics of programs and
semantics of programs, as well as logics of knowledge; in
artificial intelligence in the area of belief revision; and in game
theory in the formal analysis of social procedures, with a strong
undercurrent of philosophy running through all his work.This is not
a collection of articles limited to one theme, or even directly
connected to specific works by Parikh, but instead all papers are
inspired and influenced by Parikh in some way, adding structures to
and enriching "Parikh-land". The book presents a brochure-like
overview of Parikh-land before providing an "introductory video" on
the sights and sounds that you experience when reading the book.
By drawing on the insights of diverse scholars from around the
globe, this volume systematically investigates the meaning and
reality of the concept of negation in Post-Kantian
Philosophy-German Idealism, Early German Romanticism, and
Neo-Kantianism. The reader benefits from the historical, critical,
and systematic investigations contained which trace not only the
significance of negation in these traditions, but also the role it
has played in shaping the philosophical landscape of Post-Kantian
philosophy. By drawing attention to historically neglected thinkers
and traditions, and positioning the dialogue within a global and
comparative context, this volume demonstrates the enduring
relevance of Post-Kantian philosophy for philosophers thinking in
today's global context. This text should appeal to graduate
students and professors of German Idealism, Post-Kantian
philosophy, comparative philosophy, German studies, and
intellectual history.
Winner of the hegelpd-prize 2022 Contemporary philosophical
discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute
existence. Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics demonstrates that by
reading Hegel's Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as
a form of Absolute Dialetheism, Hegel's logic of the concept can
account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close
examination of Hegel's concept of self-referential universality in
his Science of Logic, Moss demonstrates how Hegel's concept of
singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and
epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how
Hegel's revolutionary account of universality, particularity, and
singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the
history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism, the problem
of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the
problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and
the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegel's affirmation and
development of a revised ontological argument for God's existence
is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By
adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfield's
foundation free epistemology, Moss critically engages dominant
readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. Hegel's
Foundation Free Metaphysics will appeal to scholars interested in
Hegel, German Idealism, 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy,
metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary European thought.
Winner of the hegelpd-prize 2022 Contemporary philosophical
discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute
existence. Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics demonstrates that by
reading Hegel's Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as
a form of Absolute Dialetheism, Hegel's logic of the concept can
account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close
examination of Hegel's concept of self-referential universality in
his Science of Logic, Moss demonstrates how Hegel's concept of
singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and
epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how
Hegel's revolutionary account of universality, particularity, and
singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the
history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism, the problem
of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the
problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and
the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegel's affirmation and
development of a revised ontological argument for God's existence
is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By
adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfield's
foundation free epistemology, Moss critically engages dominant
readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. Hegel's
Foundation Free Metaphysics will appeal to scholars interested in
Hegel, German Idealism, 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy,
metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary European thought.
While indeterminacy is a recurrent theme in philosophy, less
progress has been made in clarifying its significance for various
philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts. This collection
brings together early-career and well-known philosophers-including
Graham Priest, Trish Glazebrook, Steven Crowell, Robert Neville,
Todd May, and William Desmond-to explore indeterminacy in greater
detail. The volume is unique in that its essays demonstrate the
positive significance of indeterminacy, insofar as indeterminacy
opens up new fields of discourse and illuminates neglected aspects
of various concepts and phenomena. The essays are organized
thematically around indeterminacy's impact on various areas of
philosophy, including post-Kantian idealism, phenomenology, ethics,
hermeneutics, aesthetics, and East Asian philosophy. They also take
an interdisciplinary approach by elaborating the conceptual
connections between indeterminacy and literature, music, religion,
and science.
This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of
philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests.
For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the
academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious
belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical Directions aims to
take this history of thought into evil while also extending the
discourse in other directions; providing a multi-faceted collection
of papers that take heed of the various ways one can think about
evil and what role in may play in philosophical considerations of
religion. From the nature of evil to the well-known problem of evil
to the discussion of the problem in philosophical discourse, the
collection provides a wide range of philosophical approaches to
evil. Anyone interested in evil-its nature, relation to religious
belief, its use in philosophical discussion, and so on-will find
the papers in this book of interest.
Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central
arguments in Cassirer's first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic
Forms. Gregory Moss demonstrates both how Cassirer defends language
as an autonomous cultural form and how he borrows the concept of
the "concrete universal" from G. W. F. Hegel in order to develop a
concept of cultural autonomy. While Cassirer rejected elements of
Hegel's methodology in order to preserve the autonomy of language,
he also found it necessary to incorporate elements of Hegel's
method to save the Kantian paradigm from the pitfalls of
skepticism. Moss advocates for the continuing relevance of
Cassirer's work on language by situating it within in the context
of contemporary linguistics and contemporary philosophy. This book
provides a new program for investigating Cassirer's work on the
other forms of cultural symbolism in his Philosophy of Symbolic
Forms, by showing how the autonomy of culture is one of the leading
questions motivating Cassirer's philosophy of culture. With a
thorough comparison of Cassirer's theory of symbolism to other
dominant theories from the twentieth century, including Heidegger
and Wittgenstein, this book provides valuable insight for studies
in philosophy of language, semiotics, epistemology,
pyscholinguistics, continental philosophy, Neo-Kantian philosophy,
and German idealism.
Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the great economists of the
twentieth century. His History of Economic Analsyis is perhaps the
greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a
magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient
Greece to the mid-twentieth century. Schumpeter's views on his
predecessors have proved to be a constant source of controversy.
Here individual chapters examine such disparate questions as
Schumpeter's apparent disregard for the American Institutionalists,
his grudging respect for Adam Smith, the perspicacity of his views
of Quesnay and his preference for Walras over Pareto. Four chapters
are devoted to the early Medieval schools, neglected in all of his
writings. Schumpeter's magnum opus is related to the rest of his
economic output, especially his views on money and on methodology.
With contributions by leading historians of economics from six
countries, this volume analyses Schumpeter's contribution to the
history of economics, considers its lasting significance, and uses
it as a benchmark to assess the current state of the field.
Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the most famous economists of the
20th century. His "History of Economic Analsyis" is perhaps his
greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing an
account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to
the mid-20th century. Schumpeter's views on his predecessors have
proved to be a constant source of controversy. In this volume
individual chapters examine such disparate questions as
Schumpeter's apparent disregard for the American Institutionalist,
his grudging respect for Adam Smith, the perspicacity of his views
of Quesnay and his preference for Walras over Pareto. There are
four chapters devoted to the early Medieval schools neglected in
all of his writing. Schumpeter's magnum opus is related to the rest
of his economic output, especially his views on money and on
methodology.
Frank and Jenny Gilman think they have found their dream house: a
converted chapel in a quiet country village. The dream soon turns
into a nightmare, however, as they are attacked by intruders who
seem, for some reason, to be interested only in the contents of the
deep freeze. Frank and Jenny investigate and the true horror of
their situation soon emerges in this taut and exciting, yet often
blackly hilarious, horror thriller.2 women, 2 men
This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh's
scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh's interest
from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached
Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, it traces the academic
trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new
avenues in research. This volume is part of Springer's book series
Outstanding Contributions to Logic, and honours Rohit Parikh and
his works in many ways. Parikh is a leader in the realm of ideas,
offering concepts and definitions that enrich the field and lead to
new research directions. Parikh has contributed to a variety of
areas in logic, computer science and game theory. In mathematical
logic his contributions have been in recursive function theory,
proof theory and non-standard analysis; in computer science, in the
areas of modal, temporal and dynamic logics of programs and
semantics of programs, as well as logics of knowledge; in
artificial intelligence in the area of belief revision; and in game
theory in the formal analysis of social procedures, with a strong
undercurrent of philosophy running through all his work.This is not
a collection of articles limited to one theme, or even directly
connected to specific works by Parikh, but instead all papers are
inspired and influenced by Parikh in some way, adding structures to
and enriching "Parikh-land". The book presents a brochure-like
overview of Parikh-land before providing an "introductory video" on
the sights and sounds that you experience when reading the book.
While indeterminacy is a recurrent theme in philosophy, less
progress has been made in clarifying its significance for various
philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts. This collection
brings together early-career and well-known philosophers-including
Graham Priest, Trish Glazebrook, Steven Crowell, Robert Neville,
Todd May, and William Desmond-to explore indeterminacy in greater
detail. The volume is unique in that its essays demonstrate the
positive significance of indeterminacy, insofar as indeterminacy
opens up new fields of discourse and illuminates neglected aspects
of various concepts and phenomena. The essays are organized
thematically around indeterminacy's impact on various areas of
philosophy, including post-Kantian idealism, phenomenology, ethics,
hermeneutics, aesthetics, and East Asian philosophy. They also take
an interdisciplinary approach by elaborating the conceptual
connections between indeterminacy and literature, music, religion,
and science.
John R. Searle's 1995 publication "The Construction of Social
Reality" is the foundation of this collection of scholarly papers
examining Searle's philosophical theories. The book works to
reconstruct the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis
of linguistic practices in the context of John Searle's celebrated
work on intentionality. The authors provide rich and varied
critical appraisals of Searle's original text.
Reconstructs the ontology of the social sciences through an
analysis of linguistic practices in the context of John Searle's
celebrated work on intentionality
Authors provide rich and varied critical appraisals of Searle's
original text.
This updated edition retains its introduction to applied
fundamental statistics, probability, reliability, and decision
theory as these pertain to problems in Civil Engineering. The new
edition adds an expanded treatment of systems reliability, Bayesian
methods, and spatial variabililty, along with additional example
problems throughout. The book provides readers with the tools
needed to determine the probability of failure, and when multiplied
by the consequences of failure, illustrates how to assess the risk
of civil engineering problems. Presenting methods for quantifying
uncertainty that exists in engineering analysis and design, with an
emphasis on fostering more accurate analysis and design, the text
is ideal for students and practitioners of a range of civil
engineering disciplines. Expands on the class-tested pedagogy from
the first edition with more material and more examples; Broadens
understanding with simulations coded both in Matlab and in R;
Features new chapters on spatial variability and Bayesian methods;
Emphasizes techniques for estimating the influence of uncertainty
on the probability of failure
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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation - 25th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2018, Bogota, Colombia, July 24-27, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Lawrence S. Moss, Ruy De Queiroz, Maricarmen Martinez
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Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic,
Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information
and Communication, WoLLIC 2018, held inBogota, Colombia, in July
2018. The 16 full papers together with 3 short papers and 3 invited
talks presented were fully reviewed and selected from 30
submissions. The vision for the conference is to provide an annual
forum which is large enough to provide meaningful interactions
between logic and the sciences related to information and
computation.
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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation - 22nd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2015, Bloomington, IN, USA, July 20-23, 2015, Proceedings (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic,
Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information
and Computation, WoLLIC 2015, held in the campus of Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN, USA in July 2015. The 14 contributed
papers, presented together with 8 invited lectures and 4 tutorials,
were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The focus
of the workshop was on interdisciplinary research involving formal
logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and
reasoning.
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three times. These words were written down during our visit in
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