Logic and Scientific Methods Volume One of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995

Logic and Scientific Methods Volume One of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995 / edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Kees Doets, Daniele Mundici, Johan van Benthem.

This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of Hist...

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Other Authors: Dalla Chiara, Maria Luisa (Editor), Doets, Kees (Editor), Mundici, Daniele (Editor), van Benthem, Johan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 259
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Logic.
Mathematical logic.
Artificial intelligence.
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Table of Contents:
  • President’s address
  • Section 1 Proof theory and categorical logic
  • Proof-theoretical aspects of self-referential truth
  • Free lattices, communication and money games
  • On methods for proving lower bounds in propositional logic
  • On bounded set theory
  • Section 2 Model theory, set theory and formal systems
  • Infinitary logic in finite model theory
  • Decision problems for second-order linear logic
  • Comparing the continuum with the first two uncountable cardinals
  • Section 3 Recursion theory and constructivism
  • Church’s thesis and Hume’s problem
  • The logic of functional recursion
  • From higher order terms to circuits
  • Computability and enumerability
  • Mechanistic theories in cognitive science: the import of Turing’s thesis
  • Section 5 Philosophical logic
  • Conjoining and disjoining on different levels
  • Logical consequence: a turn in style
  • Applying normative rules with restraint
  • Section 10 Philosophy of logic, mathematics and computer science
  • What can we do “in principle”?
  • Causation, action, and counterfactuals
  • Symposium 1 Logic and philosophy of science: current interfaces
  • Logic and philosophy of science: current interfaces
  • Reliable belief revision
  • Explanatory translation: beyond functionalism and reductionism
  • Abductive reasoning: logic, visual thinking, and coherence
  • Can the laws of nature (physics) be complete?
  • Symposium 4 Logic in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Logic in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Logic in Czechoslovakia and Hungary
  • Mathematical logic in the former Soviet Union: brief history and current trends
  • Logic in Central and Eastern Europe: Balkan region
  • The postwar panorama of logic in Poland
  • Closing address
  • Structure and perspective: philosophical perplexity and paradox
  • Table of contents Vol. II.

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