Language, Quantum, Music

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Epistemology and Philosophy of Language

   1. Realism, Idealism, and General Terms

      • Ermanno Bencivenga

      Pages 1-5

   2. From Formal Machine to Social Colony: Toward a Complex Dynamical Philosophy of Science

      • W. E. Herfel, C. A. Hooker

      Pages 7-18

   3. Observation and Reliable Detection

      • Paul Humphreys

      Pages 19-24

   4. Conceptual Idealism and Stove’s Gem

      • Alan Musgrave

      Pages 25-35

   5. Holism in Artificial Intelligence?

      • Carlo Penco

      Pages 37-48

3. Philosophy of Probability

   1. Model Selection for Causal Theories

      • Benoit Desjardins

      Pages 49-59

   2. Nonstandard Analysis and a Classification of Probability Spaces

      • Sergio Fajardo

      Pages 61-71

   3. Some Remarks on Objective Chance (F. P. Ramsey, K. R. Popper and N. R. Campbell)

      • Maria Carla Galavotti, F. P. Ramsey, K. R. Popper, N. R. Campbell

      Pages 73-82

   4. Misapprehensions About Significance Tests and Bayesianism

      • Maria Grazia Sandrini

      Pages 83-93

4. Philosophy and Foundations of Physics

   1. The Quantum Probabilistic Approach to the Foundations of Quantum Theory: Urns and Chamaleons

      • Luigi Accardi

      Pages 95-104

   2. The Creation-Discovery-View: Towards a Possible Explanation of Quantum Reality

      • Diederik Aerts, Bob Coecke

      Pages 105-116

   3. Virtual Reality: Consequences of No-Go Theorems for the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

      • Guido Bacciagaluppi, Pieter E. Vermaas

      Pages 117-128

   4. Is Chaos Indeterministic?

      • Robert C. Bishop, Frederick M. Kronz

      Pages 129-141

   5. Wormholes and Timelike Curves: Is There Room for the Grandfather Paradox?

      • Giovanni Boniolo

      Pages 143-157

   6. John von Neumann Met Kurt Gödel: Undecidable Statements in Quantum Mechanics

      • Thomas Breuer

      Pages 159-170

   7. Set-Theoretical Models for Quantum Systems

      • Newton C. A. Da Costa, Décio Krause

      Pages 171-181

   8. Non-Ideal Measurements and Physical Possibility in Quantum Mechanics

      • Marco Del Seta, Mauricio Suárez

      Pages 183-195

   9. Time, Relativity, and the Spatiality of Mental Events

      • Mauro Dorato

      Pages 197-207

   10. Bell-Type Inequalities and Orthomodular Lattices

       • Anatolij Dvurečenskij

       Pages 209-218

A vivid and comprehensive picture of the current state of research in all directions of logic and philosophy of science. The book presents a wide combination of papers containing relevant technical results in the foundations of science and papers devoted to conceptual analyses, deeply rooted in advanced present-day research.
Audience: The volume is attractive both for specialists in foundational questions and scholars interested in general epistemology.

• Immanuel Kant
• Karl R. Popper
• Philosophy of Science
• Quantum mechanics
• epistemology
• idea
• probability
• science

• University of Florence, Italy

  Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Federico Laudisa

• University of Cagliari, Italy

  Roberto Giuntini

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