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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences

Part of the The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 78)

Editors: Frappier, Melanie; Brown, Derek; DiSalle, Robert

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2582-9

ISBN: 978-94-007-2581-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 9, 2012

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Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Modern Physics

DiSalle, Robert

Pages: 1 –18

[William Demopoulos identified a particular kind of “conceptual analysis” as a central achievement of the analytic tradition in philosophy, with far-reaching implications for the philosophy of mathematics and the mathematical sciences. I present an overview of this notion of conceptual analysis,...
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Seeing Things Move

Dummett, Michael

Pages: 21 –30

[On the classical model, the history of the physical universe is constituted by its states at each instant. The evolving magnitude of any quantity will be given, in terms of selected units of time and of that quantity, by a function from real numbers on to real numbers. Given this classical model...
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A Critical Examination of Sellars’s Theory of Perception

Gupta, Anil

Pages: 31 –56

[It is a central thesis in Sellars’s theory of perception that the given is mythical, that the non-conceptual element in perception has no rational force. Sellars thus offers a coherence theory of the reasonableness of perceptual judgments. I suggest that Sellars is right in rejecting the idea...
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Long Ago, in a Context Far Away

Wilson, Mark

Pages: 57 –73

[“Cut the pie any way you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head.” With those jaunty words, Hilary Putnam may have launched nearly as many philosophical ships as Helen of Troy. Quite divergent theses can be arranged upon the frame of a gnomic aphorism and in this essay, I will suggest a new...
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the “Sound” of Meaning

Bromberger, Sylvain

Pages: 75 –93

[Ambiguity and vagueness are clearly very distinct properties, but the nature of the distinction deserves some careful analysis. This chapter considers three obvious possibilities: (a) that ambiguity and vagueness are simply distinct properties as are for instance being blue and being square; (b)...
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Carnap’s Philosophical Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumentalism

Friedman, Michael

Pages: 95 –114

[Carnap’s treatment of theoretical terms involves, first, his conception of them as being only “partially” interpreted, second, his use of the Ramsey sentence on behalf of this conception. (The latter, in particular, has been insightfully examined recently by Bill Demopoulos.) Carnap’s treatment...
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Frege and Benacerraf’s Problem

Wright, Crispin

Pages: 117 –133

[Benacerraf posed the challenge of reconciling a face-value construal of the ontology of fundamental mathematical theories: numbers, sets, points, lines, functions and so on, with an epistemology based on the causal interaction between the knowing subject and the known subject matter. This paper...
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More on Frege and Hilbert

Hallett, Michael

Pages: 135 –162

[The central difference between Frege’s and Hilbert’s respective views of mathematics was that on Frege’s view, a mathematical theory must be concerned with a fixed subject matter, while Hilbert’s view was that mature mathematical theories presented something like a schema of concepts, and that...
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The Axiom of Choice in an Elementary Theory of Operations and Sets

Bell, John L.

Pages: 163 –175

[A theory (ETHOS) is developed in which the concepts of operation, function, and single-valued relation are distinguished. In ETHOS operations (and functions) and sets are treated on a par; the former are not ‘reduced’ to sets of ordered pairs, as in set theory, but neither do sets vanish...
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Quantum Mechanics and Ontology

Putnam, Hilary

Pages: 179 –189

[This chapter considers the prospects, in the present state of research in quantum mechanics, for an ontological foundation for the theory that is compatible with the minimal constraints of scientific realism, that is, compatible with the attribution of physical states to particles. No single...

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