Formal and informal methods in philosophy /
"This book examines the tension between formal and informal methods in philosophy. The rise of analytic philosophy was accompanied by the development of formal logic and many successful applications of formal methods. But analytical philosophy does not rely on formal methods alone. Elements of...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden Boston :
Brill | Rodopi,
2020.
Series:
Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities;
volume 113.
Schöningh, Fink and mentis Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9783657100170.
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Call Number: BD241 .F645 2020
| Summary: | "This book examines the tension between formal and informal methods in philosophy. The rise of analytic philosophy was accompanied by the development of formal logic and many successful applications of formal methods. But analytical philosophy does not rely on formal methods alone. Elements of broadly understood informal logic and logical semiotics, procedures used in natural sciences and humanities, and various kinds of intuition also belong to the philosopher's toolkit. Papers gathered in the book concern the opposition formality-informality as well as other pairs, such as methodology versus metaphilosophy, interdisciplinarity versus intradisciplinarity, and methodological uniformity versus diversity of sciences. Problems of the nature of logic and the explanatory role of mathematical theories are also discussed". |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004420502 |