Overview
- The first work on the Realism-Antirealism debate in the Age of Alternative Logics
- Large variety of different new topics are undertaken from the viewpoint of the well-known distinction `realism vs. antirealism'
- Shows the most recent developments in philosophical logic
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 23)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to call themselves `antirealists'. Others persisted with the formal background of the Frege-Tarski tradition, where Cantorian set theory is linked via model theory to classical logic. Jaakko Hintikka tried to unify both traditions by means of what is now known as `explicit epistemic logic'. Under this view, epistemic contents are introduced into the object language as operators yielding propositions from propositions, rather than as metalogical constraints on the notion of inference.
The Realism-Antirealism debate has thus had three players: classical logicians, intuitionists and explicit epistemic logicians. The editors of the present volume believe that in the age of Alternative Logics, where manifold developments in logic happen at a breathtaking pace, this debate should be revisited. Contributors to this volume happily took on this challenge and responded with new approaches to the debate from both the explicit and the implicit epistemic point of view.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The collection is composed of 18 chapters, covering a wide variety of topics. … the volume offers a panorama of research work done in the first decade of the twenty first century, concerning the ongoing debate about realism vs anti-realism and is, therefore, necessary reading for anyone interested in the central questions in this debate.” (Costas Dimitracopoulos, Metascience, February, 2013)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics
Editors: Shahid Rahman, Giuseppe Primiero, Mathieu Marion
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1923-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1922-4Published: 22 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3783-9Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1923-1Published: 22 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 348
Topics: Logic, Epistemology, Theory of Computation