Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Science
The impressive record of Italian philosophical research since the end of Fascism thirty-two years ago is shown in many fields: esthetics, social and" personal ethics, history and sociology of philosophy, and magnificently, perhaps above all, in logic, foundations of mathematics and the philosop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I / Foundations of Logic and of Mathematics
- Positively Omitting Types
- Proof Theory and Theory of Meaning
- Free Semantics
- A Temporalization of Modal Semantics
- Semantics for a Class of Intuitionistic Modal Calculi
- ‘Since’, ‘Even If’, ‘As If’
- What Is Contemporary Logic Talking About?
- Intuition and Rigor: Some Problems of a ‘Logic of Discovery’ in Mathematics
- Intuitive Proofs and First-Order Derivations: Some Notes on the Metamathematics of First-Order Number Theory
- Constructive Sequent Reduction in Gentzen’s First Consistency Proof for Arithmetic
- Inductive Logic and Inductive Statistics
- II / Foundations of Empirical Sciences
- Is There a Logic of Empirical Sciences?
- On Physical Possibility
- Problems of the Proposition-State Structure of Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Logic and the Two-Slit Experiment
- Causality and Tachyons in Relativity
- Time and Causality
- The Concept of Progress in Physics
- Equilibria, Crystals, Programs, Energetic Models, and Organizational Models
- III / History of the Sciences
- Francesco Patrizi: Heavenly Spheres and Flocks of Cranes
- Leibniz on the Structure of Relations
- Necessary and Contingent Truths in Leibniz
- Kant on Mathematical Definition
- ‘Proof’, ‘Theory’, and ‘Foundations’ in Hilbert’s Mathematical Work from 1885 to 1900
- The History of Science as the History of Dictionaries
- Biographical Notes
- Index of Names