Analysis and interpretation in the exact sciences: essays in Honour of William Demopoulos

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analyticphilosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on theone hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guidingidea 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 ofphilosophers 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 analysisand interpretation link these fields together.

• ISBN: 978-94-007-2581-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 26/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés