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  • Indeterminacy in the World

    Series series Elements in Metaphysics
    The way we represent the world in thought and language is shot through with indeterminacy: we speak of red apples and yellow apples without thereby committing to any sharp cutoff between the application of the predicate 'red' and of the predicate 'yellow'. But can reality itself be indeterminate? In other words, can indeterminacy originate in the mind-independent world, and not only in our ... Read more

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  • Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language

    Edited by Alessandro Torza ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathematics. It advances an argument for the uniqueness of quantifier meaning in terms of Evert Beth’s notion of ... Read more

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  • How Mathematicians Think

    Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

    by William Byers ...
    To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar ... Read more

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  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Read more

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  • Godel's Mistake

    The Role of Meaning in Mathematics

    by Ashish Dalela ...
    Gödel's incompleteness theorem is a foundational result in mathematics that proves that any axiomatic theory of numbers will be either inconsistent or incomplete. Turing’s Halting problem is a foundational result in computing proving that computers cannot know if a program will halt. Gödel’s Mistake connects these theorems to the question of meaning. The book shows that the proofs arise due to ... Read more

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  • Causation and Laws of Nature

    by Max Kistler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation*.* Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level of phenomena we encounter in everyday life.This book will be of great interest to philosophers of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Analysis

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

    by Mark Colyvan ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey through some intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory, including such topics as the realism/anti-realism debate in mathematics, mathematical explanation, the limits of mathematics, the ... Read more

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  • Analytic Number Theory For Undergraduates

    Series Book 3 - Monographs In Number Theory
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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:* the mathematical image* platonism* picture-proofs* applied mathematics* Hilbert and Godel* knots and nations* definitions* picture-proofs and Wittgenstein* computation, proof and conjecture ... Read more

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