Author: Sarkar, Sahotra; editor: Title: Logic, Probability, and Epistemology: The Power of Semantics.
Description: New York & London, Garland Publishing, 1996. orig.cloth.. 24x15cm, xviii, 402 pp, Series: Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism: Volume 3.. Small label on rear cover, VG. ¶ Contains 20 papers. Includes: A. Tarski "The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics"; R. Carnap "Modalities and Quantification"; H. Reichenbach "On Probability and Induction"; R.Carnap " The Two Concepts of Probality"; H. Reichenbach "Philosophical Foundations of Probability"; K.R. Popper "The Propensity Interpretation of the Calculus of Probability, and the Quantum Theory"; H. Reichenbach "On the Justification of Induction"; R. Carnap "On Inductive Logic"; C.G. Hempel " Studies in the Logic of Confirmation"; N. Goodman "A Query on Confirmation"; C.G. Hempel "A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation"; C.G. Hempel "On Infirmities of Confirmation Theory"; R. Carnap "Reply to Nelson Goodman"; J.G. Kemeny "The Use of Simplicity in Induction"; R. Carnap "The Aim of Inductive Logic"; C.G. Hempel & P. Oppenheim "Studies in the Logic of Explanation"; E. Nagel "The Meaning of Reduction in the Natural Sciences"; R.B. Braithwaite "The Nature of Theoretical Concepts and the Role of Models in an Advanced Science"; R. Hilpinen "Carnap's New System of Inductive Logic"; R. Creath "The Unimportance of Semantics".
Keywords: Logical Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Logic, Philosophy, Semantics Semantic, Epistemology, Probability, Science, Meta-Science
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- Book number: BOOKS008641I