Front cover image for Philosophical dimensions of logic and science : selected contributed papers from the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999

Philosophical dimensions of logic and science : selected contributed papers from the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999

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 Kraków in 1999.
eBook, English, ©2003
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ©2003
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource
9781402016455, 140201645X
1012458190
I Logic and Metamathematics.- 1 A Classification of Logics Over FLew.- 2 On Representing Semantics in Finite Models.- 3 Spectra of Formulae with Henkin Quantifiers.- 4 On ?N-Definability in Arithmetic.- 5 Arithmetic Complexity of the Predicate Logics.- 6 Straightforward Proof of Köbler-Messner’s Result.- 7 On the Persistent Difficulty of Disjunction.- II Science.- 8 Science, Lifeworld, and Realism.- 9 Explaining Laws by Reduction.- 10 Akaike’s Theorem and Bayesian Methodology.- 11 Does A Living System Have a State?.- 12 Do Genes Code for Traits?.- 13 Chemistry and the Completeness of Physics.- 14 The Thermodynamic Arrow of Time.- 15 Modal Interpretations.- 16 Cartwright’s Models Are Not Adequate for Epr.- III Language.- 17 Radical Anti-Realism and Substructural Logics.- 18 The Minimalist Conception of Truth.- 19 Truth and Satisfaction by the Empty Sequence.- 20 Truth, Propositions and Context.- 21 Actuality and Possibility.- 22 Possible Worlds Semantics and the Liar.- IV Cognition.- 23 The Triplet Modeling of Concept Connections.- 24 Evaluation and Testing in Creativity.- 25 Assessment in the Limit of Scientific Inquiry.- 26 Inferential Traps in an Escalation Process.- Index of Names.