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Acting and Reflecting

The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 211)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Philosophy?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Philosophy and the Sciences

      • Patrick Suppes
      Pages 3-30
    3. Impressions of Philosophy

      • Thomas Schwartz
      Pages 31-37
    4. The Computational Model of the Mind

      • Dana S. Scott, Gilbert Harman, John Haugeland, Jay McClelland, Allen Newell
      Pages 39-56
    5. Discussion: Progress in Philosophy

      • Herbert A. Simon
      Pages 57-62
    6. Philosophy and the Academy

      • Clark Glymour
      Pages 63-71
  3. Working

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Pale Fire Solved

      • David Carrier
      Pages 75-87
    3. What are General Equilibrium Theories?

      • Dan Hausman
      Pages 107-114
    4. Effective Epistemology, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

      • Kevin Kelly, Herbert Simon
      Pages 115-128
    5. Decisions Without Ordering

      • Teddy Seidenfeld, M. J. Schervish, J. B. Kadane
      Pages 143-170
    6. Reflections on Hilbert’s Program

      • Wilfried Sieg
      Pages 171-182
    7. The Tetrad Project

      • Peter Spirtes, Richard Scheines, Clark Glymour
      Pages 183-207
  4. Postscriptum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. Rationality Unbound

      • Isaac Levi
      Pages 211-221

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Wilfried Sieg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Acting and Reflecting

  • Book Subtitle: The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy

  • Editors: Wilfried Sieg

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2476-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0512-5Published: 31 December 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7617-3Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2476-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 222

  • Topics: Logic, Computational Linguistics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations

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