The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen's ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright'…
Philosophy of Formal and Physical Sciences -- Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth in Terms of Analyticity -- General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test -- Implications of the Geometry of Quantum Mechanical Perfect Correlation Functions Concerning “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities” -- Introductory Remarks -- Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Science -- Q…
Scientific Cognition in a Sociocultural Context -- Structure of Theoretical Knowledge -- The Foundations of Science -- Genesis of Theoretical Knowledge in Classical Science -- Formation and Development of Theory in Non-Classical Science -- Scientific Revolutions -- Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in the Epoch of Post-Non-Classical Science -- Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in th…
Law and Defeasibility -- Law and Coherence -- Reason-Based Logic -- Comparing Alternatives -- Rule Consistency -- What is a Norm? -- Legal Statics and Legal Dynamics -- Dialectical Models in Artificial Intelligence and Law -- Legal Reasoning and Legal Integration.Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law. All of the pape…
Accidents, Tragedies and Disasters -- The Internal Relationship Between Ethics and Business -- The Buck Stops Here and it Stops Everywhere Else as Well -- Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management -- The Vasa Disaster -- The Titanic Disaster -- The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster -- Post-Challenger Investigations -- The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster -- The King’s Cross Under…
Phantasy and Image Consciousness -- Phantasy and Re-Presentation (Memory). &lgt;The Question of the Relationship between Apprehension and Belief Quality> -- Belief as Impression. -- Memory and Phantasy. -- Immanent and Internal Phantasy (In the Double Sense). Phantasy and Perception. -- The Modifications of Believing: Belief (Certainty), Inclination, Doubt, and so on, in the Sphere of Simple…
Critique of Reason -- Phenomenologie Transcendantale et Critique de la Raison Théorique, pratique et axiologique -- The Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Traditions -- Some Comments on Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology -- Lessons from Sartre for the Analytic Phiolosophy of Mind -- A New Copernican Revolution: Moving Beyond the Husserlian Epoche to a New Critique of Reason: Tymieniecka and …
Contemporary Concepts of Philosophy -- Le Langage -- Sens -- On the Different Identities of Identity : A Historical and Critical Essay -- Ontology and Language -- Ästhetische Theorie oder Hermeneutische Ästhetik -- La Liberté, Immanence de la Transcendance -- The Absolute : A Philosophical Problem -- The Crisis of European Sciences as Crisis of Rational Culture in Husserl’s Philosophy.Phil…
Logics for Epistemic Programs -- A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation -- Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems -- A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory -- An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems -- Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles -- Nonmonotonic Inferences and …
Introduction: Alfred Tarski’s Philosophical Background in the Context of His 1933 Definition of Truth -- The Notion of the Truth Bearer -- Descriptive Psychology: The Theory of Judgement as the Theory of Cognition and Knowledge -- Judgement, Psychology, and Language -- The Ontology of Judgement -- Reism -- The Objectivity of Truth -- Ontologism, Abstract Objects and Nominalism -- Brentanism a…