This book develops a view of logic as a theory of information-driven agency and intelligent
interaction between many agents-with conversation, argumentation and games as guiding …

Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of
science with an integrated survey of all its important subfields. As the book's subtitle …

Logical pluralism is the claim that different accounts of validity can be equally correct. Beall
and Restall have recently defended this position. Validity is a matter of truth-preservation …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the concept of logic. Logic can be
identified as the study of inferences and inferential relations. The practical use of logic is in …

This paper discusses the American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce's (1839–
1914) classification of the sciences from the contemporary perspective of interdisciplinary …

This dissertation aims at the logical modelling of aspects of human reasoning, informed by
facts on the bounds of human cognition. We break down this challenge into three parts: Part …

In this chapter, we present the concept of force in Kepler. We follow the development of this
concept during Kepler's scientific career, starting from his early considerations in the …

Feferman's argument presented in 1977 seemed to block any possibility for category theory
to become a serious contender in the foundational game. According to Feferman, two …

How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledge The Story of
Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proof—one of the most significant and …

We investigate and classify the notion of final derivability of two basic inconsistency-adaptive
logics. Specifically, the maximal complexity of the set of final consequences of decidable …