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PHILOSOPHICAL DEVICES
PROOFS, PROBABILITIES, POSSIBILITIES, AND SETS |
| By: |
David Papineau |
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Paperback |
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£19.49 |
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£17.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199651736 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199651733 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 August, 2012 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Philosophical Devices introduces the technical ideas that are taken for granted in contemporary philosophical writing. It offers simple explanations and covers a wealth of material that is normally available only to specialists. This original, distinctive book will appeal to anyone who is curious about the technical infrastructure of philosophy. |
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This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, Philosophical Devices is able to cover a wealth of material that is normally only available to specialists. The book contains four sections, each of three chapters. The first section is about sets and numbers, starting with the membership relation and ending with the generalized continuum hypothesis. The second is about analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. The third is about probability, outlining the difference between objective and subjective probability and exploring aspects of conditionalization and correlation. The fourth deals with metalogic, focusing on the contrast between syntax and semantics, an |
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line-drawings |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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