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| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1990-08-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521388849 |
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2001-07-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521775014 |
An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.
| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1983-10-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 110726815X |
This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and uses it to give a new direction to debates about realism. Hacking illustrates how experimentation often has a life independent of theory. He argues that although the philosophical problems of scientific realism can not be resolved when put in terms of theory alone, a sound philosophy of experiment provides compelling grounds for a realistic attitude. A great many scientific examples are described in both parts of the book, which also includes lucid expositions of recent high energy physics and a remarkable chapter on the microscope in cell biology.
| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1975-09-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521099981 |
Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues.
| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2004-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674016071 |
In this text, Ian Hacking offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus is the historical emergence of concepts and objects.
| Author | : Ian Hacking |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1984-06-21 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521318037 |
Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.
| Author | : Neil Tennant |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199251605 |
The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology.
| Author | : Edward Beltrami |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2020-07-30 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1071607995 |
In this fascinating book, mathematician Ed Beltrami takes a close enough look at randomness to make it mysteriously disappear. The results of coin tosses, it turns out, are determined from the start, and only our incomplete knowledge makes them look random. "Random" sequences of numbers are more elusive, but Godels undecidability theorem informs us that we will never know. Those familiar with quantum indeterminacy assert that order is an illusion, and that the world is fundamentally random. Yet randomness is also an illusion. Perhaps order and randomness, like waves and particles, are only two sides of the same (tossed) coin.
| Author | : Grant Ingersoll |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1638353867 |
Summary Taming Text, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. The book guides you through examples illustrating each of these topics, as well as the foundations upon which they are built. About this Book There is so much text in our lives, we are practically drowningin it. Fortunately, there are innovative tools and techniquesfor managing unstructured information that can throw thesmart developer a much-needed lifeline. You'll find them in thisbook. Taming Text is a practical, example-driven guide to working withtext in real applications. This book introduces you to useful techniques like full-text search, proper name recognition,clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization.You'll explore real use cases as you systematically absorb thefoundations upon which they are built.Written in a clear and concise style, this book avoids jargon, explainingthe subject in terms you can understand without a backgroundin statistics or natural language processing. Examples arein Java, but the concepts can be applied in any language. Written for Java developers, the book requires no prior knowledge of GWT. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. Winner of 2013 Jolt Awards: The Best Books—one of five notable books every serious programmer should read. What's Inside When to use text-taming techniques Important open-source libraries like Solr and Mahout How to build text-processing applications About the Authors Grant Ingersoll is an engineer, speaker, and trainer, a Lucenecommitter, and a cofounder of the Mahout machine-learning project. Thomas Morton is the primary developer of OpenNLP and Maximum Entropy. Drew Farris is a technology consultant, software developer, and contributor to Mahout,Lucene, and Solr. "Takes the mystery out of verycomplex processes."—From the Foreword by Liz Liddy, Dean, iSchool, Syracuse University Table of Contents Getting started taming text Foundations of taming text Searching Fuzzy string matching Identifying people, places, and things Clustering text Classification, categorization, and tagging Building an example question answering system Untamed text: exploring the next frontier
| Author | : Stephen M. Walt |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2006-09-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0393292711 |
Finalist for the 2006 Gelber Prize: "A brilliant contribution to the American foreign policy debate."—Anatol Lieven, New York Times Book Review At a time when America's dominance abroad was being tested like never before, Taming American Power provided for the first time a "rigorous critique of current U.S. strategy" (Washington Post Book World) from the vantage point of its fiercest opponents. Stephen M. Walt examines America's place as the world's singular superpower and the strategies that rival states have devised to counter it. Hailed as a "landmark book" by Foreign Affairs, Taming American Power makes the case that this ever-increasing tide of opposition not only could threaten America's ability to achieve its foreign policy goals today but also may undermine its dominant position in years to come.
