Ebook: Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.

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The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.

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The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Seeing Things Move....Pages 21-30
A Critical Examination of Sellars’s Theory of Perception....Pages 31-56
Long Ago, in a Context Far Away....Pages 57-73
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the “Sound” of Meaning....Pages 75-93
Carnap’s Philosophical Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumentalism....Pages 95-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Frege and Benacerraf’s Problem....Pages 117-133
More on Frege and Hilbert....Pages 135-162
The Axiom of Choice in an Elementary Theory of Operations and Sets....Pages 163-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Quantum Mechanics and Ontology....Pages 179-189
Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements:A Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability....Pages 191-217
Is Information the Key?....Pages 219-233
Correlations and Counterfactuals: The EPR Illusion....Pages 235-243
A Remark About the “Geodesic Principle” in General Relativity....Pages 245-252
Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Modern Physics....Pages 1-18
Back Matter....Pages 253-267

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The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Seeing Things Move....Pages 21-30
A Critical Examination of Sellars’s Theory of Perception....Pages 31-56
Long Ago, in a Context Far Away....Pages 57-73
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the “Sound” of Meaning....Pages 75-93
Carnap’s Philosophical Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumentalism....Pages 95-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Frege and Benacerraf’s Problem....Pages 117-133
More on Frege and Hilbert....Pages 135-162
The Axiom of Choice in an Elementary Theory of Operations and Sets....Pages 163-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Quantum Mechanics and Ontology....Pages 179-189
Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements:A Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability....Pages 191-217
Is Information the Key?....Pages 219-233
Correlations and Counterfactuals: The EPR Illusion....Pages 235-243
A Remark About the “Geodesic Principle” in General Relativity....Pages 245-252
Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Modern Physics....Pages 1-18
Back Matter....Pages 253-267
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