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Recursive Functions and Metamathematics
Problems of Completeness and Decidability, Gödel’s Theorems
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Recursive Functions and Metamathematics deals with problems of the completeness and decidability of theories, using as its main tool the theory of recursive functions. This theory is first introduced and discussed. Then Gödel's incompleteness theorems are presented, together with generalizations,...
by Stefania Centrone
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl’s work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy...
Regenerative Medicine
From Protocol to Patient
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The field of regenerative medicine has developed rapidly over the past 20 years with the advent of molecular and cellular techniques. This textbook, Regenerative Medicine: From Protocol to Patient, aims to explain the scientific knowledge and emerging technology as well as the clinical application...
Pedagogies of the Image
Photo-archives, Cultural Histories, and Postfoundational Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry. Visual objects may help illuminate broader socio-historical events and logics that are deeply entwined with...
Internal Logic
Foundations of Mathematics from Kronecker to Hilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Internal logic is the logic of content. The content is here arithmetic and the emphasis is on a constructive logic of arithmetic (arithmetical logic). Kronecker's general arithmetic of forms (polynomials) together with Fermat's infinite descent is put to use in an internal consistency proof. The view...
Responsibility in Context
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Arne Johan Vetlesen Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is expanding; pressing a key, I can immediately reach persons living in another continent; products travel across the world to the store just around the corner from me; thanks to modern media, I am cognisant of events...
Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms
Essays in Honour of John L. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L. Bell to celebrate his 60th birthday by colleagues, former students, friends and admirers. Like Bell’s own work, the contributions cross boundaries into several inter-related fields. The contributions are new work by highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The central idea developed by the contributions to this book is that the split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology - perhaps the most impor tant schism in twentieth-century philosophy - resulted from a radicalization of reciprocal partialities. Both schools of thought share, in fact, the...
Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language
An Enquiry into the Contemporary Views on Universals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike the "conti nental" reader for whom this work was originally written, the English speaking...
by Victor Biceaga
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of...
Austrian Philosophy Past and Present
Essays in Honor of Rudolf Haller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about Austrian philosophy leading up to the philosophy of Rudolf Haller. It emerged from a philosophy conference held at the University of Arizona by Keith Lehrer with the support of the University of Arizona and Austrian Cultural Institute. We are grateful to the University of Arizona...
Reasons for Action
Toward a Normative Theory and Meta-Level Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them. Other people may coherently judge that I am incapable of figuring out correctly what I rationally ought to do, or they may inform me of reasons of which I had heretofore been ignorant, or they may try to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Despite the importance of Leibniz's mature philosophy, his early work has been relatively neglected. This collection begins with an overview of his formative years and includes 12 original papers by internationally-known scholars. The contributions reflect the wide range of the young Leibniz's philosophical...
by Nduka Okafor
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the book looks at the taxonomy of marine and freshwater bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, viruses, and the smaller aquatic animals such as nematodes...