Evandro Agazzi: Right, Wrong and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evandro Agazzi: Right, Wrong and Science write by . This book was released on 2016-09-12. Evandro Agazzi: Right, Wrong and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Solving the problem of the negative impact of science and technology on society and the environment is indeed the greatest challenge of our time. To date, this challenge has been taken up by few professional philosophers of science, making this volume a welcome contribution to the general debate. Agazzi’s treatment involves viewing modern science and technology as each constituting systems. Against the background of this approach, he provides a penetrating analysis of science, technology and ethics, and their interrelations. Agazzi sees the solution to the problem as lying in the moral sphere and including a multilateral assumption of responsibility on the part of decision makers both within and outside of science.
Evandro Agazzi Right Wrong and Science
Evandro Agazzi Right Wrong and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evandro Agazzi Right Wrong and Science write by Craig Dilworth. This book was released on . Evandro Agazzi Right Wrong and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry
Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry write by . This book was released on 2016-08-01. Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the second of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers’ philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume is devoted to Kuipers’ neo-classical philosophy of science, as laid down in his Structures in Science (Kluwer, 2001). Kuipers defends a dialectical interaction between science and philosophy in that he views philosophy of science as a meta-science which formulates cognitive structures that provide heuristic patterns for actual scientific research, including design research. In addition, Kuipers pays considerable attention to the computational approaches to philosophy of science as well as to the ethics of doing research. Thomas Nickles, David Atkinson, Jean-Paul van Bendegem, Maarten Franssen, Anne Ruth Mackor, Arno Wouters, Erik Weber & Helena de Preester, Eric Scerri, Adam Grobler & Andrzej Wisniewski, Alexander van den Bosch, Gerard Vreeswijk, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thagard, Emma Ruttkamp, Robert Causey, Henk Zandvoort comment on these ideas of Kuipers, and many present their own account. The present book also contains a synopsis of Structures in Science. It can be read independently of the first volume of Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers, which is devoted to Kuipers’ From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000).
Essays in Logic and Ontology
Essays in Logic and Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays in Logic and Ontology write by . This book was released on 2016-08-29. Essays in Logic and Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to present essays centered upon the subjects of Formal Ontology and Logical Philosophy. The idea of investigating philosophical problems by means of logical methods was intensively promoted in Torun by the Department of Logic of Nicolaus Copernicus University during last decade. Another aim of this book is to present to the philosophical and logical audience the activities of the Torunian Department of Logic during this decade. The papers in this volume contain the results concerning Logic and Logical Philosophy, obtained within the confines of the projects initiated by the Department of Logic and other research projects in which the Torunian Department of Logic took part.
Arithmetic and Ontology
Arithmetic and Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arithmetic and Ontology write by Philip Hugly. This book was released on 2016-08-09. Arithmetic and Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume documents a lively exchange between five philosophers of mathematics. It also introduces a new voice in one central debate in the philosophy of mathematics. Non-realism, i.e., the view supported by Hugly and Sayward in their monograph, is an original position distinct from the widely known realism and anti-realism. Non-realism is characterized by the rejection of a central assumption shared by many realists and anti-realists, i.e., the assumption that mathematical statements purport to refer to objects. The defense of their main argument for the thesis that arithmetic lacks ontology brings the authors to discuss also the controversial contrast between pure and empirical arithmetical discourse. Colin Cheyne, Sanford Shieh, and Jean Paul Van Bendegem, each coming from a different perspective, test the genuine originality of non-realism and raise objections to it. Novel interpretations of well-known arguments, e.g., the indispensability argument, and historical views, e.g. Frege, are interwoven with the development of the authors’ account. The discussion of the often neglected views of Wittgenstein and Prior provide an interesting and much needed contribution to the current debate in the philosophy of mathematics.
