Thinking Things Through
Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
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1997
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Provides a broad, historical introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. Glymour describes key philosophical problems and traces attempts to solve them, from Ancient Greece to the 1990s.
Thinking Things Through provides a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. The presentation is centered around three of the most fruitful issues in Western thought: What are proofs, and why do they provide knowledge? How can experience be used to gain knowledge or to alter beliefs in a rational way? What is the nature of mind and of mental events and mental states? In a clear and lively style, Glymour describes these key philosophical problems and traces attempts to solve them, from ancient Greece to the present.Thinking Things Through reveals the philosophical sources of modern work in logic, the theory of computation, Bayesian statistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, and it connects these subjects with contemporary problems in epistemology and metaphysics. The text is full of examples and problems, and an instructor's manual is available.Clark Glymour is Alumni Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University and Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Thinking Things Through provides a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. The presentation is centered around three of the most fruitful issues in Western thought: What are proofs, and why do they provide knowledge? How can experience be used to gain knowledge or to alter beliefs in a rational way? What is the nature of mind and of mental events and mental states? In a clear and lively style, Glymour describes these key philosophical problems and traces attempts to solve them, from ancient Greece to the present.Thinking Things Through reveals the philosophical sources of modern work in logic, the theory of computation, Bayesian statistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, and it connects these subjects with contemporary problems in epistemology and metaphysics. The text is full of examples and problems, and an instructor's manual is available.Clark Glymour is Alumni Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University and Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Clark Glymour is Senior Research Scientist at IHMC and Alumni University Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Part 1 The idea of proof: proofs; Aristotle's theory of demonstration and proof; ideas, combinations, and the mathematics of thought; the laws of thought; Frege's new logical world; modern logic. Part 2 Experience, knowledge, and belief: scepticism; Bayesian solutions; Kantian solution; knowledge and reliability. Part 3 Mind and meaning; the computable; the computational concept of mind. Part 4 Conclusions: the enterprise of philosophy.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.1997 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bradford Books |
Zusatzinfo | 25 |
Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 635 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-262-57119-6 / 0262571196 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-57119-7 / 9780262571197 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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