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This classic remains one of Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge ... More

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This monograph is unique in its kind, giving as it does an independent and self-contained introduction to the eight prominent verisimilitude ... More

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Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also ... More

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Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the ... More

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The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention in recent years. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that ... More

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A collection of papers presented at the conference on Probability Theory - Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science, University of ... More

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The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L. Bell to celebrate his 60th birthday by colleagues, former students, ... More

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Husserl's "Logical Investigations" is designed to help students and specialists work their way through Husserl's expansive text by bringing together ... More

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This volume contains original contributions dedicated to Vladimir A. Smirnov by some of the leading scholars in Russia, the United States, Japan, ... More

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The fundamental thesis of The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge: a view from the limit is that knowledge may be characterized by convergence to a ... More

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In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science. Within ... More

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This book is the first modern examination of the philosophical foundations of intuitionism since Oscar Becker's (1927) Mathematische Existenz. ... More

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Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly ... More

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This volume attempts to provide a new articulation of issues surrounding scientific realism, scientific rationality, the epistemology of non ... More

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This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of ... More

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Features extracts from Mills' "A System of Logic" and other major works to consider names and propositions; reasoning; induction; operations ... More

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Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge. Its range of concern includes not only knowledge proper but also rational belief, probability, ... More

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Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for ... More

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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science, knowledge and language: what kind of knowledge ... More

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This volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the distinction between a 'context of justification' and a 'context of discovery'. It is meant ... More

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Natural and social sciences seem very often to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to ... More

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