Logic, Epistemology, And The Unity Of Science

by Rahman, Shahid; Symons, John; Gabbay, Dov M.; Van Bendegem, Jean Paul

• ISBN13: 9781402028076
• ISBN10: 1402028075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy. Developments in logic are especially relevant to the current situation in philosophy of science. At present, there is no single logic, single approach to semantics or well-defined conception of scientific method dominating the philosophy of science. At the same time, questions concerning linguistic, reductionist and foundationalist approaches to epistemology, the analytic and synthetic distinction as well as disputes concerning semantics and pragmatics have been illuminated by recent developments in logic. Given the power of such developments, discussions of the unity of science are even more intriguing and urgent than in the 20th century. The first title in this new series aims to explore, through extensive co-operation, new ways of achieving the integration of science in all its diversity. The present volume contains essays from some of the most important and influential philosophers in contemporary philosophy, discussing a range of topics such as philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of logic and game theoretical approaches. It will be of great interest to philosophers, computer scientists and all others interested in the scientific rationality.

Table of Contents

I. Some Programmatic Comments	1	(22)
Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science: An Encyclopedic Project in the Spirit of Neurath and Diderot	3	(14)
Shahid Rahman
John Symons
An International Encyclopedia of the Unified Sciences (translated by John Symons and Ramon Alvarado)	17	(6)
Otto Neurath
II. Game Theory and Independence Friendly Logic as a Unifying Framework	23	(116)
Towards a Unity of the Human Behavioral Sciences	25	(16)
Herbert Gintis
Some Coloured Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 20th Century	41	(10)
Gerhard Heinzmann
Logical Versus Nonlogical Concepts: An Untenable Dualism?	51	(6)
Jaakko Hintikka
Semantic Games in Logic and Epistemology	57	(48)
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
If Logic, Game-Theoretical Semantics and the Philosophy of Science	105	(34)
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Gabriel Sandu
III. Unity and Plurality in Science and in Logic	139	(150)
Concepts Structured through Reduction: A Structuralist Resource Illuminates the Consolidation-Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) Link	141	(10)
John Bickle
The Unity of Science and the Unity of Being: A Sketch of a Formal Approach	151	(12)
C. Ulises Moulines
Logical Pluralism and the Preservation of Warrant	163	(12)
Greg Restall
In Defence of the Dog: Response to Restall	175	(6)
Stephen Read
Normic Laws, Non-monotonic Reasoning, and the Unity of Science	181	(32)
Gerhard Schurz
The Puzzling Role of Philosophy in Life Sciences: Bases for a Joint Program for Philosophy and History of Science	213	(16)
Juan Manuel Torres
The Creative Growth of Mathematics	229	(28)
Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Quantum Logic and the Unity of Science	257	(32)
John Woods
Kent A. Peacock
IV. The Logic of the Knowledge-Seeking Activities	289	(168)
Belief Contraction, Anti-formulae and Resource Overdraft: Part II Deletion in Resource Unbounded Logics	291	(36)
Dov Gabbay
Odinaldo Rodrigues
John Woods
Reasoning about Knowledge in Linear Logic: Modalities and Complexity	327	(24)
Mathieu Marion
Mehrnouche Sadrzadeh
A Solution to Fitch's Paradox of Knowability	351	(30)
Helge Ruckert
Theories of Knowledge and Ignorance	381	(38)
Wiebe Van Der Hoek
Jan Jaspars
Elias Thijsse
Action-Theoretic Aspects of Theory Choice	419	(18)
Heinrich Wansing
Some Computational Constraints in Epistemic Logic	437	(20)
Timothy Williamson
V. Contributions from Non-Classical Logics	457	(144)
The Need for Adaptive Logics in Epistemology	459	(28)
Diderik Batens
Logics for Qualitative Reasoning	487	(40)
Paulo Veloso
Walter Carnielli
Logic of Dynamics and Dynamics of Logic: Some Paradigm Examples	527	(30)
Bob Coecke
David J. Moore
Sonja Smets
Complementarity and Paraconsistency	557	(12)
Newton C. A. Da Costa
Decio Krause
Law, Logic, Rhetoric: a Procedural Model of Legal Argumentation	569	(20)
Arno Lodder
Essentialist Metaphysics in a Scientific Framework	589	(12)
Ulrich Nortmann
Index	601