Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science

by Rojszczak, Artur; Cachro, Jacek; Kurczewski, Gabriel; INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LOGIC, METHODO

• ISBN13: 9781402016455
• ISBN10: 140201645X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in KrakÃ[3]w in 1999. The Congress was a follow-up to the series of meetings, initiated once by Alfred Tarski, which aimed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scientists, philosophers and logicians. The articles selected for publication in the book comply with that idea and innovatively address current issues in logic, metamathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and cognitive science, as well as philosophical problems of biology, chemistry and physics. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, logicians and scientists interested in foundational problems of their disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface

Logic and Metamathematics

A classification of logics over FLew

On representing semantics in finite models

Spectra of formulae with Henkin quantifiers

On SigmaN-definability in arithmetic

Arithmetic complexity of the predicate logics

Straightforward proof of Köbler-Messner's result

On the persistent difficulty of disjunction

Science

Science, lifeworld and realism

Explaining laws by reduction

Akaike's theorem and Bayesian methodology

Does a living system have a state?

Do genes code for traits?

Chemistry and the completeness of physics

The thermodynamic arrow of time

Modal interpretations

Cartwright's models are not adequate for EPR

Language

Radical anti-realism and substructural logics

The minimalist conception of truth

Truth and satisfaction by the empty sequence

Truth, propositions and context

Actuality and possibility

Possible worlds semantics and the liar

The triplet modeling of concept connections

Evaluation and testing in creativity

Assessment in the limits of scientific inquiry

Inferential traps in an escalation process

Index of Names

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