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Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala

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Editors:
  1. Dag Prawitz

    1. Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

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  2. Dag Westerståhl

    1. Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 236)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Philosophical Logic

    1. On the Interpretation of Attitude Logics

      • Tuomo Aho
      Pages 1-11

    2. Taking Belief Bases Seriously

      • Sven Ove Hansson
      Pages 13-28

    3. Montague-Gallin’s Intensional Logic, Structured Meanings and Scott’s Domains

      • Serge Lapierre
      Pages 29-48

    4. The Logic of Belief Change and Nonadditive Probability

      • Philippe Mongin
      Pages 49-68

    5. How to Model Relational Belief Revision

      • Wlodzimierz Rabinowicz, Sten Lindström
      Pages 69-84

  3. Methodology

    1. A Probabilistic Foundation of Statistical Mechanics

      • D. Costantini, U. Garibaldi
      Pages 85-98

    2. Innate Knowledge and Scientific Rationality

      • Martin Edman
      Pages 99-115

    3. Belief Revision: Subjectivist Principles and Practice

      • Michael Goldstein
      Pages 117-130

    4. Unification and Support: Harmonic Law Ratios Measure the Mass of the Sun

      • William Harper, Bryce Hemsley Bennett, Sreeram Valluri
      Pages 131-146

    5. Theoretical Explanation and Unification

      • Anne L. Hiskes
      Pages 147-157

    6. From Phenomena to Metaphysics

      • C. A. Hooker
      Pages 159-184

    7. How to Fix a Prior

      • Isaac Levi
      Pages 185-204

  4. Probability, Induction and Decision Theory

    1. Philosophical Applications of Kolmogorov’s Complexity Measure

      • Itzhak Gilboa
      Pages 205-230

    2. Towards a Mechanization of Real-Life Decisions

      • Per-Erik Malmnäs
      Pages 231-243

    3. The Hypothesis of Nash Equilibrium and Its Bayesian Justification

      • Paul Weirich
      Pages 245-264
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About this book

The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science. Both the invited lectures and the many contributed papers are conductive to this end. At the 9th Congress held in Uppsala in 1991 there were 54 invited lectures and around 650 contributed papers divided into 15 different sections. Some of the speakers who presented contributed papers that attracted special interest were invited to submit their papers for publication, and the result is the present volume. A few papers appear here more or less as they were presented at the Congress whereas others are expansions or elaborations of the talks given at the Congress. A selection of this kind, containing 38 papers drawn from the 650 contributed papers presented at the Uppsala Congress, cannot do justice to all facets of the field as it appeared at the Congress. But it should allow the reader to get a representative survey of contemporary research in large areas of philosophical logic and philosophy of science. About half of the papers of the volume appear in sections listed at the Congress under the heading Philosophical and Foundational Problems about the Sciences. The section Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and Computer Science is represented by three papers, Foundations of Physical Sciences by six papers, Foundations of Biological Sciences by three papers, Foundations of Cognitive Science and AI by one paper, and Foundations of Linguistics by three papers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Dag Prawitz, Dag Westerståhl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala

  • Editors: Dag Prawitz, Dag WesterstÃ¥hl

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8311-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2702-8Published: 31 March 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4365-8Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8311-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 614

  • Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Science, History, general, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Philosophy of Language

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