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  • Varieties of Scientific Realism

    Objectivity and Truth in Science

    Edited by Evandro Agazzi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative representatives of different philosophical traditions explain their perspectives on the ... Read more

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  • Probability in the Sciences

    Edited by E. Agazzi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Probability has become one of the most characteristic con cepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our in tellectual life. However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of 'positive' features, to be proposed as identifica tion marks of this way of thinking. One would rather say that it is characterized by ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Mathematics Today

    Edited by György Darvas, E. Agazzi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen tially independent of linguistic formulations, in the sense that, once the content of this knowledge has been grasped, there remains only the problem of professional ability, that of clearly formulating and correctly proving it. However, the question is not so simple, and P. Weingartner's paper (Language and Coding-Dependency of ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Reductionism in Science

    (Colloquium of the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Zürich, May 18–19, 1990)

    Edited by E. Agazzi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary to what might appear at first sight, just a matter of preference between a more abstract (reductionism) or a more concrete (reduction) terminology for indicating the same sUbject matter. In fact, the difference is that between a philosophical ... Read more

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  • Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science

    Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, ... Read more

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  • The Queen's Two Bodies

    Maria Stuart und Elisabeth I. von Schiller bis Jelinek

    Series Book 143 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    Der Band basiert auf den Beiträgen des Klassik-Kollegs »The Queen’s Two Bodies«, das im Juni 2018 an der Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar zwischen den drei Herausgeberinnen und In-stitutionen veranstaltet wurde: Elena Agazzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Gesa Dane (Freie Universität Berlin) und Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver). ... Read more

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  • Science, metaphysics, religion

    by AA. VV. ...
    The contributions of this book investigate systematically and historically many aspects of the relations between science, metaphysics and religion. ... Read more

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  • The Practical Turn in Philosophy of Science

    by AA. VV. ...
    After Gödel’s results the limitations of the three principal “foundational schools” became more and more evident, while the “working scientists” continued their activity caring more for the acquisition of “results” than for logical rigor. This “pragmatic turn” was perceivable also in philosophy of science due to an influence of pragmatism that replaced the previous influence of logical empiricism ... Read more

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  • Promoting Positive Behavioral Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers

    An Evidence-Based Guide to Early Intervention

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book provides a guide for planning, providing, and documenting effective early interventions for infants and toddlers and their families. It discusses best practices for engaging the family, team problem-solving, developing individual treatment plans, incorporating evidence-based interventions, tracking progress, and identifying and solving challenges and obstacles presenting during treatment ... Read more

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  • Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption of operational criteria designed within the particular perspective under which any single science ... Read more

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    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our ... Read more

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