Logic and philosophy of science in Uppsala

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
On the Interpretation of Attitude Logics....Pages 1-11
Taking Belief Bases Seriously....Pages 13-28
Montague-Gallin’s Intensional Logic, Structured Meanings and Scott’s Domains....Pages 29-48
The Logic of Belief Change and Nonadditive Probability....Pages 49-68
How to Model Relational Belief Revision....Pages 69-84
A Probabilistic Foundation of Statistical Mechanics....Pages 85-98
Innate Knowledge and Scientific Rationality....Pages 99-115
Belief Revision: Subjectivist Principles and Practice....Pages 117-130
Unification and Support: Harmonic Law Ratios Measure the Mass of the Sun....Pages 131-146
Theoretical Explanation and Unification....Pages 147-157
From Phenomena to Metaphysics....Pages 159-184
How to Fix a Prior....Pages 185-204
Philosophical Applications of Kolmogorov’s Complexity Measure....Pages 205-230
Towards a Mechanization of Real-Life Decisions....Pages 231-243
The Hypothesis of Nash Equilibrium and Its Bayesian Justification....Pages 245-264
The Ontological Foundations of Bolzano’s Philosophy of Mathematics....Pages 265-271
Anticipations of Progress: Historical Evidence for a Realist Epistemology....Pages 273-295
Mathematical Reasoning and Pragmatism in Peirce....Pages 297-310
Logic in Transition: The Logical Calculi of Hilbert (1905) and Zermelo (1908)....Pages 311-323
The Idea of Structureless Points and Whitehead’s Critique of Einstein....Pages 325-332
Epistemic Honesty....Pages 333-343
In Defence of Science....Pages 345-354
What is Structuralism?....Pages 355-364
The Limits of Formalization....Pages 365-372
Ontologic Versus Epistemologic: Some Strands in the Development of Logic, 1837–1957....Pages 373-384
Outcome Dependence and Stochastic Einstein Nonlocality....Pages 385-424
A Path from Watt’s Engine to the Principle of Heat Transfer....Pages 425-438
Practical Reasoning in the Foundations of Quantum Theory....Pages 439-452
Symmetries in the Physical Sciences....Pages 453-464
Holes in the Role Argument....Pages 465-482
The Cognitive Status of the Reconstruction of Mechanisms in Modern Organic Chemistry. The Reconstruction of the Mechanism of the Acidic Hydrolysis of Nucleosides....Pages 483-498
Darwinism and the Moral Status of Animals....Pages 499-509
Mereology, Set Theory, Biological Ontology....Pages 511-524
Simplicity in Theory-Construction and Evaluation: The Case of the Chromosome Theory of Mendalian Inheritance....Pages 525-539
The Alleged Autonomy of Psychology and the Social Sciences....Pages 541-557
Plural Reference and Unbound Pronouns....Pages 559-582
What is Logical Form? ....Pages 583-598
On an Argument Against Semantic Compositionality....Pages 599-610
Back Matter....Pages 611-614