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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences

Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Melanie Frappier

    1. , History of Science and Technology Progra, University of King's College, Halifax, Canada

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  2. Derek Brown

    1. , Philosophy, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada

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  3. Robert DiSalle

    1. , Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  • Original contributions from world-leading researchers in philosophy
  • Breadth of philosophical perspective: emphasizes links between analytic philosophy, foundations of mathematics, andinterpretive problems in scientific theories
  • Breadth of topics: contributions in the philosophy of physics, philosophy and history of mathematics, philosophy of language, logic and contemporary analytic philosophy

Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 78)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Modern Physics

    • Robert DiSalle
    Pages 1-18

  3. Perception, Language, and Realism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Seeing Things Move

      • Michael Dummett
      Pages 21-30

    3. A Critical Examination of Sellars’s Theory of Perception

      • Anil Gupta
      Pages 31-56

    4. Long Ago, in a Context Far Away

      • Mark Wilson
      Pages 57-73

    5. Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the “Sound” of Meaning

      • Sylvain Bromberger
      Pages 75-93

    6. Carnap’s Philosophical Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumentalism

      • Michael Friedman
      Pages 95-114

  4. Foundations of Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Frege and Benacerraf’s Problem

      • Crispin Wright
      Pages 117-133

    3. More on Frege and Hilbert

      • Michael Hallett
      Pages 135-162

    4. The Axiom of Choice in an Elementary Theory of Operations and Sets

      • John L. Bell
      Pages 163-175

  5. Foundations of Physics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Quantum Mechanics and Ontology

      • Hilary Putnam
      Pages 179-189

    3. Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements:A Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability

      • Itamar Pitowsky
      Pages 191-217

    4. Is Information the Key?

      • Jeffrey Bub
      Pages 219-233

    5. Correlations and Counterfactuals: The EPR Illusion

      • Allen Stairs
      Pages 235-243

    6. A Remark About the “Geodesic Principle” in General Relativity

      • David B. Malament
      Pages 245-252

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-267
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The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , History of Science and Technology Progra, University of King's College, Halifax, Canada

    Melanie Frappier

  • , Philosophy, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada

    Derek Brown

  • , Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Robert DiSalle

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