Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits - 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 Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits write by Bertrand Russell. This book was released on 2009-03-04. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.
Epistemetrics
Epistemetrics - 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 Epistemetrics write by Nicholas Rescher. This book was released on 2006-03-13. Epistemetrics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, had a monopoly on knowledge. Although it is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area.
Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits
Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits - 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 Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits write by J.H. Fetzer. This book was released on 1990-04-30. Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominated by the 'Basic Model' that the mind stands to the brain as the program stands to the computer. This conception that the theory of computability defines the boundaries of thought can be sustained only if the mental processes of human beings operate in the same fashion as do the programs of computers. The standard conception and the Basic Model are subjected to a thorough critique in this book, which offers evidence that the Basic Model is irretrievably flawed and that the standard conception has to be rejected.
The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy - 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 The Problems of Philosophy write by Bertrand Russell. This book was released on 2001. The Problems of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.
Gödel's Disjunction
Gödel's Disjunction - 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 Gödel's Disjunction write by Leon Horsten. This book was released on 2016. Gödel's Disjunction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The logician Kurt Godel in 1951 established a disjunctive thesis about the scope and limits of mathematical knowledge: either the mathematical mind is not equivalent to a Turing machine (i.e., a computer), or there are absolutely undecidable mathematical problems. In the second half of the twentieth century, attempts have been made to arrive at a stronger conclusion. In particular, arguments have been produced by the philosopher J.R. Lucas and by the physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose that intend to show that the mathematical mind is more powerful than any computer. These arguments, and counterarguments to them, have not convinced the logical and philosophical community. The reason for this is an insufficiency if rigour in the debate. The contributions in this volume move the debate forward by formulating rigorous frameworks and formally spelling out and evaluating arguments that bear on Godel's disjunction in these frameworks. The contributions in this volume have been written by world leading experts in the field.
