Structures And Structuralism In Contemporary Philosophy Of Mathematics JournalSynthese PublisherSpringer Netherlands ISSN0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online) IssueVolume 125, Number 3 / December, 2000 DOI10.1023/A:1005203923553 Pages341-383 Subject CollectionHumanities, Social Sciences and Law SpringerLink DateMonday, November 01, 2004 Add to marked items Ad […]

Degrees of Belief Book SeriesSynthese Library SubjectPhilosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Logic and Probability and Statistics in Computer Science VolumeVolume 342 SubjectPhilosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Probability Theory and Stochastic Process […]

 !

Tool and Object http://www.springerlink.com/content/v42840/?sortorder=asc&v=expanded A History and Philosophy of Category Theory Book SeriesScience Networks. Historical Studies SubjectMathematics, History of Mathematics and Category Theory, Homological Algebra VolumeVolume 32 SubjectMathematics, History of Mathematics and Category Theory, Homological Alg […]

 Why I am a PlatonistDavid MumfordLike the previous authors of this ongoing debate,1 I have to begin by clarifying what “Platonism” means to me. Here’s my phrase:"The belief that there is a body of mathematical objects, relations and facts about them that is independent of and unaffected by human endeavors to discover them."This is essentially Davi […]

Mathematical Models: A Sketch for the Philosophy of Mathematics Saunders Mac Lane The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 88, No. 7 (Aug. - Sep., 1981), pp. 462-472 Published by: Mathematical Association of America

Structures And Structuralism In Contemporary Philosophy Of Mathematics JournalSynthese PublisherSpringer Netherlands ISSN0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online) IssueVolume 125, Number 3 / December, 2000 DOI10.1023/A:1005203923553 Pages341-383 Subject CollectionHumanities, Social Sciences and Law SpringerLink DateMonday, November 01, 2004 PDF (183.9 KB) Structu […]

On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Hilary Putnam and James Conant Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 70, (1996), pp. 243-265 (article consists of 23 pages) Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Aristotelian Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4107008 […]

The Philosophy of StatisticsDennis V. Lindley Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 49, No. 3 (2000), pp. 293-337 (article consists of 45 pages) Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Statistical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2681060

Constructing belief functions from sample data using multinomial confidence regions - ►psu.edu [PDF] T Denœux - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2006 - Elsevier... nC0N nC18C19.Using the classical approximation of ... introduction to the imprecise Dirichlet model for ... 2nd InternationalSymposium on Imprecise Probabilities and ... Cited by 19 […]

Confirmation and justification. A commentary on Shogenji’s measure JournalSynthese PublisherSpringer Netherlands ISSN0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online) DOI10.1007/s11229-009-9696-4 Subject CollectionHumanities, Social Sciences and Law SpringerLink DateSaturday, November 21, 2009 Add to marked items Add to saved items Permissions & Reprints Recommend th […]

On an alleged counter-example to causal decision theory JournalSynthese PublisherSpringer Netherlands ISSN0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online) DOI10.1007/s11229-009-9689-3 Subject CollectionHumanities, Social Sciences and Law SpringerLink DateSaturday, November 21, 2009 Add to marked items Add to shopping cart Add to saved items Permissions & Reprints Re […]

Perfect Symmetrieshttp://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004144/01/PerfectSymmetries.pdf Richard Healey Philosophy Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027, USA rhealey@email.arizona.edu   Abstract While empirical symmetries relate situations, theoretical symmetries relate models of a theory we use to represent them. An empirical symmetry […]

Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science  Author: Stathis Psillos a Affiliation:   a University of Athens, DOI: 10.1080/00048400902941430 Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year Published in: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 87, Issue 4 December 2009 , pages 681 - 684 Subject: Philosophy; Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English) […]

Accuracy and Coherence: Prospects for an Alethic Epistemology of Partial Belief Book SeriesSynthese Library VolumeVolume 342 BookDegrees of Belief PublisherSpringer Netherlands DOI10.1007/978-1-4020-9198-8 Copyright2009 ISBN978-1-4020-9197-1 (Print) 978-1-4020-9198-8 (Online) PartPart II DOI10.1007/978-1-4020-9198-8_11 Pages263-297 Subject CollectionHumaniti […]

Is admiring set theory (rather than mathematical structure) not like admiring clay (rather than a statue)?  Perhaps more like admiring marble, which can be quite nice in-itself but still ought not distract one's eye from its uses, practical and artistic.

Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough for Policy

The Northern Institute of Philosophy (NIP) intends to establish a journal dedicated to the publication of concise, succinct (of less than 4500 words), original, philosophical papers in the following areas: Logic, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology (including formal epistemology and confirmation t […]

So, do these emails and documents represent proof of a “conspiracy” and “scandal”? At this point it seems highly unlikely, and the more that people look at the illegally-obtained emails and documents, the less likely it will become. Here’s why. First, there has been much ado made about some emails that supposedly talk about “tricks” and procedures to “hide t […]

All-night Campout at Sarah Palin Book Signing in Dublin, Ohio

Philosophy: from the armchair, but not about it.

Rorty Discussion with Donald Davidson"It's the only string to their bow."

Lecture notes on representations of finite groups 2 Next term I am supposed to teach a course on representation of finite groups. This is a third year course for undegrads. I was thinking to use the book of Grodon James and Martin Liebeck "Representations and characters of groups", but also looking for other refferences. The question is: could you […]

To motivate my question, I will describe a related problem and then give a solution to it. My question will then be a variant of this problem. N individuals sit around a table and want to compute the average of their salaries. They wish to do this in a manner such that no private information is leaked. This is to say no one obtains any information (regarding […]

So, I read PI’s section about private pains, and my head is a-whirl with toothaches, grandfather clocks on the sun, and beetles in boxes.  (btw – it’s crabs in your girlfriend’s box.  BOO-YAH).  Anyway — I think I have a small grasp on the argument contra private pains, which I’ll detail here.  I’ll then leave [...] […]

In PI 50 Wittgenstein writes: One would, however, like to say: existence cannot be attributed to an element, for if it did not exist, one could not even name it and so one could say nothing at all of it. — But let us consider an analogous case.  There is one thing of which one can [...]

Wittgenstein and Quine both battle against the philosopher’s must, but in quite different ways. Consider W’s battle against the solipsist’s must — that there must be no experiences besides his own: Now the man whom we call a solipsist and who says that only his own experiences are real, does not thereby disagree with us about any prac […]

From PI sec. 193 We might say that a machine, or the picture of it, is the first of a series of pictures which we have learnt to derive from this one. But when we reflect that the machine could also have moved differently it may look as if the way it moves must be contained in the [...]

The Blue Book pp. 41,2: I have been trying in all this to remove the temptation to think that there ‘must be’ what is caled a mental process of thinking, hoping, wishing, believing, etc., independent of the process of expressing a thought, a hope, a wish, etc.  And I want to give you the following rule of thumb: if [...]