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This is the first volume on category theory for a broad philosophical readership. It is designed to show the interest and significance of category theory for a... Læs mere
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A monograph on the interface of computational complexity and randomness of sets of natural numbers.
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This is the first complete English translation of Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893 and 1903), with introduction and annotation. As the culmination... Læs mere
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There is an urgent need in philosophy of mathematics for new approaches which pay closer attention to mathematical practice. This book will blaze the trail: it... Læs mere
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The book examines issues related to the way modeling and simulation enable us to reconstruct aspects of the world we are investigating. It also investigates the processes by which we extract concrete knowledge from those reconstructions and how that knowledge is legitimated.
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This Handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. Thirty-six self-contained... Læs mere
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Covering the evolution of mathematics since the ancient times, this work observes the changes that have taken place in the conception of... Læs mere
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This volume addresses questions regarding scientific creativity and imagination, the status of scientific performances—such as thought experiments and visual aids—and the role of aesthetic considerations in the context of discovery and justification of scientific theories.
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Written for a wide audience, this is the full story of Hex, inside and out, with all its twists and turns: Hein’s creation, Lindhard’s puzzles, Nash’s proofs, Gale’s Bridg-it, the... Læs mere
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Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different scientific theories may be incommensurable because of conceptual variance.
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Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. This book will be of interest to philosophers of logic, as well as mathematicians.
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Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. This book will be of interest to philosophers of logic, as well as mathematicians.