The Algebra of Metaphysics

The Algebra of Metaphysics
Author: Ronny Desmet
Publisher: Les Editions Chromatika
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 2930517085

Drawing upon the major Harvard works — Science and the Modern World (1925), Process and Reality (1929) and Adventures of Ideas (1933) —, the essays gathered here on the occasion of the creation of the Applied Process Metaphysics S

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Author: Nathan Salmon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-11-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019153594X

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of Gödel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Author: Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199284717

'Metaphysics, Mathematics and Meaning' brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence and fiction. He includes a previously unpublished essay and helpful new introduction to orient the reader.

Principia Mathematica

Principia Mathematica
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 688
Release: 1910
Genre: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
ISBN:

The Metaphysics

The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0486817490

The ancient Greek thinker refutes skepticism, demonstrates God's existence, compares metaphysics to the other sciences, elucidates the nature of the infinite, and explores other major philosophical issues.

The Algebra of Thought & Reality

The Algebra of Thought & Reality
Author: Stephen Blaha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780981904931

This Second Edition extends the First Edition of The Algebra Of Thought & Reality: A New Operator Formulation For Classical & Quantum Logic Obviating Logic Paradoxes & Godel's Undecidability Theorem; and Giving a Mathematical Basis For Plato's Theory Of Ideas, And Reality - The Standard Model Of Particles in several ways. There are three important new sections. One section discusses Observers both in the formulation of Operator Logic and in the Quantum Reality in which we live. The second new section discusses space-time. It shows the need for Time since, for example, proofs are stated in (time) steps as are experiments and phenomena in Reality. Since we see events at various spatial locations the concept of space must appear in Reality. Consistency with the spinor formulation of Operator Logic leads to four-dimensional space-time. The third section deals with the Concept of Being as substance and form from philosophic and modern particle physics points of view. Lastly, some additional comments appear in the text. The additional topics presented in this edition serve to solidify the connection of Operator Logic (Ideas-Thought) with Blaha's derivation of the Standard Model (Reality as we currently know it). Thus the chain from Operator Logic to the Standard Model is more solid and based on known entities while other attempts at comprehensive theories of Reality are usually based on unobserved and/or less justifiable constructs, and thus are less compelling. Both editions describe a new formulation of Logic -- Operator Logic. It appears to resolve all of the paradoxes that have beset Logic since the 19th century. It reduces the importance of Godel's Undecidability Theorem by showing how to generally, and consistently, exclude undecidable propositions from a mathematical-deductive system or its corresponding calculus. These books also show how Plato's theory of Ideas and Reality, and their mathematical relation, is mirrored by the development of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles from the mathematical framework of Operator Logic. These editions can be viewed as the precursors of the derivation of the Standard Model given in Blaha's book "A Complete Derivation of the Form of the Standard Model with a New Method to Generate Particle Masses."

The Structure of the World

The Structure of the World
Author: Steven French
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199684847

Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects in the world. He draws on metaphysics and philosophy of science to argue for structural realism—the position that we live in a world of structures—and defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology.

More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy - Second Edition

More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy - Second Edition
Author: Eric Steinhart
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 155481345X

More Precisely is a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. Eric Steinhart provides lucid explanations of many basic mathematical concepts and sets out the most commonly used notational conventions. He also demonstrates how mathematics applies to fundamental issues in various branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics. This second edition adds a substantial section on decision and game theory, as well as a chapter on information theory and the efficient coding of information.