Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala

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

5. History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

   1. The Ontological Foundations of Bolzano’s Philosophy of Mathematics

      • Jan Berg

      Pages 265-271

   2. Anticipations of Progress: Historical Evidence for a Realist Epistemology

      • Kenneth Goodman

      Pages 273-295

   3. Mathematical Reasoning and Pragmatism in Peirce

      • Gerhard Heinzmann

      Pages 297-310

   4. Logic in Transition: The Logical Calculi of Hilbert (1905) and Zermelo (1908)

      • Volker Peckhaus

      Pages 311-323

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.

• cognitive science
• logic
• philosophy of science
• probability
• science

• Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

  Dag Prawitz, Dag Westerståhl

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