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The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism

Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, With his responses

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Merrilee H. Salmon

    1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 206)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Critical Essays

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Is Science Really Inductive?

      • Frederick Suppe
      Pages 3-27

    3. Bolzano’s Theory of Induction

      • L. Jonathan Cohen
      Pages 29-40

    4. Cellular Space Models: New Formalism for Simulation and Science

      • Bernard P. Zeigler
      Pages 41-64

    5. Some Reflections on Logical Truth As a Priori

      • Manley Thompson
      Pages 65-82

    6. Semantics and Ontology: Arthur Burks and the Computational Perspective

      • Michael A. Arbib
      Pages 83-97

    7. Names and Attitudes

      • Steven E. Boër
      Pages 99-130

    8. Machines and Behavior

      • Richard Laing
      Pages 131-144

    9. Finite Automata and Human Beings

      • Andrew Lugg
      Pages 145-158

    10. On Guiding Rules

      • R. J. Nelson
      Pages 159-177

    11. Actuality and Potentiality

      • Edward C. Moore
      Pages 179-190

    12. Burk’s Logic of Conditionals

      • Soshichi Uchii
      Pages 191-207

    13. Presuppositions and the Normative Content of Probability Statements

      • F. John Clendinnen
      Pages 209-232

    14. Arthur Burks on the Presuppositions of Induction

      • R. D. Rosenkrantz
      Pages 233-250

    15. Taking Physical Probability Seriously

      • Peter Railton
      Pages 251-283

    16. Presuppositions of Induction

      • Brian Skyrms
      Pages 285-319

    17. Scientific Objectivity and the Evaluation of Hypotheses

      • Robert Audi
      Pages 321-346

  3. The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347
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    2. The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism

      • Arthur W. Burks
      Pages 349-524
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About this book

This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es­ says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen­ tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob­ ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be­ tween minds and machines, and the nature of rules that guide be­ havior. In this volume honoring Arthur W. Burks, the philosophical breadth of his work is thus manifested in the diverse aspects of that work chosen for discussion and development by the contributors to his Festschrift. Part II consists of a book-length essay by Burks in which he lays out his philosophy of logical mechanism while responding to the papers in Part I. In doing so, he provides a unified and coherent context for the range of problems raised in Part I, and he highlights interesting relationships among the topics that might otherwise have gone un­ noticed. Part II is followed by a bibliography of Burks's published works.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Merrilee H. Salmon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, With his responses

  • Editors: Merrilee H. Salmon

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0987-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0325-1Due: 31 December 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6933-5Published: 21 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0987-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 552

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Language

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