| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in history and philosophy of science, 0929-6425 ; v. 28 |
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Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 28.
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| Contents |
Part 1. In Epistemology -- Getting Over Gettier / Alan Musgrave -- Justified Believing: Avoiding the Paradox / Gregory W. Dawes -- Literature and Truthfulness / Gregory Currie -- The Buck-Passing Stops Here / Andrew Moore -- Part 2. In Science -- Universal Darwinism: Its Scope and Limits / James Maclaurin -- The Future of Utilitarianism / Tim Mulgan -- Kant on Experiment / Alberto Vanzo -- Did Newton Feign the Corpuscular Hypothesis? / Kirsten Walsh -- The Progress of Scotland and the Experimental Method / Juan Gomez -- Part 3. In Metaphysics -- Propositions: Truth vs. Existence / Heather Dyke -- Against Advanced Modalizing / Josh Parsons -- Spread Worlds, Plenitude and Modal Realism: A Problem for David Lewis / Charles R. Pigden and Rebecca E.B. Entwisle -- Defending Quine on Ontological Commitment / Emily Gill -- The Scandal of Semantic Platonism / Vladimír Svoboda -- Part 4. In Logic -- A Neglected Reply to Prior's Dilemma / Jc Beall -- Mathematical and Empirical Concepts / Pavel Materna -- Post-Fregean Thoughts on Propositional Unity / Bjørn Jespersen -- Best-Path Theorem Proving: Compiling Derivations / Martin Frické -- Is Imperative Inference Impossible? / The Argument from Permissive Presuppositions / Hannah Clark-Younger |
| Summary |
Rationis Defensor is¡ a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and which has twice been judged as the strongest research department across all disciplines in governmental research assessments. Colin is the immediate past President of the Australasian Association for Philosophy (New Zealand Division). He is the author of Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism (Springer, 2001) and the editor, with Vladimir Svoboda and Bjorn Jespersen, of Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy (University of Otago Press, 2005) and, with John Worrall, of Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (Springer, 2006). The¡volume celebrates the dedication to rational enquiry and the philosophical style of Colin Cheyne. It also celebrates the distinctive brand of naturalistic philosophy for which Otago has become known. Contributors to the volume include a wide variety of philosophers, all with a personal connection to Colin, and all of whom are, in their own way, defenders of rationality |
| Analysis |
Philosophy of nature |
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Science -- Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Science |
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History of Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cheyne, Colin
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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MATHEMATICS -- Infinity.
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MATHEMATICS -- Logic.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
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Mathematics -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maclaurin, James.
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| ISBN |
9789400739833 |
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9400739834 |
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9400739826 |
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9789400739826 |
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