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Logicism and its philosophical legacy
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ISBN: 9781107029804 1107029805 9781139342605 9781107502581 9781139625876 113962587X 1139342606 9781139616577 1139616579 9781283870641 1283870649 9781139612852 1139612859 1139610996 9781139610995 1107237386 9781107237384 1139609211 9781139609210 1139622153 9781139622158 1107502586 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism's principal legacy for philosophy: its elaboration of notions of analysis and reconstruction. The essays reflect on the deployment of these ideas by the principal figures in the history of the subject - Frege, Russell, Ramsey and Carnap - and in doing so illuminate current concerns about the nature of mathematical and theoretical knowledge. Issues addressed include the nature of arithmetical knowledge in the light of Frege's theorem; the status of realism about the theoretical entities of physics; and the proper interpretation of empirical theories that postulate abstract structural constraints.


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On theories : logical empiricism and the methodology of modern physics.
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ISBN: 9780674269712 0674269713 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

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A renowned philosopher’s final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which empirical evidence functions in modern physics. In his final work, the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history, Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence, albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories finds clarity in Isaac Newton’s suspicion of mere “hypotheses.” Newton’s methodology lies in the background of Jean Perrin’s experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan. Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart Bell’s empirical analysis of Einstein’s “local realism.” On Theories ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.


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On theories : logical empiricism and the methodology of modern physics
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ISBN: 9780674237575 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) : Harvard University Press,

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The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which empirical evidence functions in modern physics.In his final work, the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history, Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence, albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories finds clarity in Isaac Newton's suspicion of mere "hypotheses." Newton's methodology lies in the background of Jean Perrin's experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan. Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart Bell's empirical analysis of Einstein's "local realism." On Theories ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.


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Physical Theory and its Interpretation : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub
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ISBN: 9781402048760 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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Meaning and cognitive structure : issues in the computational theory of mind
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ISBN: 0893913723 Year: 1986 Publisher: Norwood Ablex

Learnability and linguistic theory
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ISBN: 0792302478 Year: 1989 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

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Learnability and linguistic theory
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ISBN: 0792305582 9400909551 0792302478 9780792305583 Year: 1989 Volume: 9 Publisher: Dordrecht Kluwer

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Physical theory and its interpretation : essays in honor of Jeffrey Bub
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ISBN: 1402048750 9781402048753 9048172144 9786610656387 1280656387 1402048769 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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