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Exact Philosophy

Problems, Tools, and Goals

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  • © 1973

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Editors:
  1. Mario Bunge

    1. Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 50)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Legal Philosophy

    1. The Intuitive Background of Normative Legal Discourse and Its Formalization

      • Carlos E. Alchourrón
      Pages 181-197

  2. History of Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Plato’s Phaedo Theory of Relations

      • Héctor-Neri Castañeda
      Pages 201-214
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About this book

The papers that follow were read and discussed at the first Symposium on Exact Philosophy. This conference was held at Montreal on November 4th and 5th, 1971, to celebrate the sesquicentennial of McGill University and establish the Society for Exact Philosophy. The expression 'exact philosophy' is taken to signify mathematical phi­ losophy, i.e., philosophy done with the explicit help of mathematical logic and mathematics. So far the expression denotes an attitude rather than a fully blown discipline: it intends to convey the intention to try and pro­ ceed in as exact a manner as we can in formulating and discussing phi­ losophical problems and theories. The kind of philosophy we wish to practice and promote is disciplined rather than wild, systematic rather than disconnected, and capable of being argued over rather than oracular. We believe that even metaphysics, notoriously riotous, can be subjected to the control of logic and mathematics. Even the history of philosophy, notoriously unsystematic, can benefit from an exact reconstruction of some classical ideas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Mario Bunge

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exact Philosophy

  • Book Subtitle: Problems, Tools, and Goals

  • Editors: Mario Bunge

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2516-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1973

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0251-7Due: 30 April 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2518-8Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2516-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 224

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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