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050 00 $aB791$b.P265 2012
100 1 $aPapineau, David,$d1947-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPhilosophical devices :$bproofs, probabilities, possibilities, and sets /$cDavid Papineau.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, England :$bOxford University Press,$c[2012]
300 $axix, 192 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like "denumerability," "modal scope distinction," "Bayesian conditionalization," and "logical completeness" are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, Philosophical Devices is able to cover a wealth of material that is normally only available to specialists. The book contains four sections, each of three chapters. The first section is about sets and numbers, starting with the membership relation and ending with the generalized continuum hypothesis. The second is about analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. The third is about probability, outlining the difference between objective and subjective probability and exploring aspects of conditionalization and correlation. The fourth deals with metalogic, focusing on the contrast between syntax and semantics, and finishing with a sketch of Godel's theorem. Philosophical Devices will be useful for university students who have got past the foothills of philosophy and are starting to read more widely, but it does not assume any prior expertise. All the issues discussed are intrinsically interesting, and often downright fascinating. It can be read with pleasure and profit by anybody who is curious about the technical infrastructure of contemporary philosophy."--p. 4 of cover.
505 0 $aPart I: Sets and Numbers. Naive Sets and Russell's Paradox ; Infinite Sets ; Orders of Infinity. -- Part II: Analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. Kinds of Truths ; Possible Worlds ; Naming and Necessity. -- Part III: The Nature and Uses of Probability. Kinds of Probability ; Constraints on Credence ; Correlations and Causes. -- Part IV: Logics and Theories. Syntax and Semantics ; Soundness and Completeness ; Theories and Godel's Theorem.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Modern.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPapineau, David, 1947-$tPhilosophical devices.$dOxford : Oxford University Press, 2012$z9780191656248$w(OCoLC)816241512
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