Language, Quantum, Music Selected Contributed Papers of the Tenth In
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University
Editors:
DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University ofGroningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California JAN WOLEN-SKI, Jagiellonian University, ·Krakow, Poland
VOLUME 281
LANGUAGE, QUANTUM, MUSIC Selected Contributed Papers of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995 Edited by
MARIA LUISA DALLA CHIARA University of Florence, Italy
ROBERTO GIUNTINI University of Cagliari, Italy
FEDERICO LAUDISA University of Florence, Italy
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B. V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5229-2 ISBN 978-94-017-2043-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2043-4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
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PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
E. BENCIVENGA / Realism, Idealism, and General Terms W.E. HERFEL, c.A. HOOKER I From Formal Machine to Social Colony: Toward a Complex Dynamical Philosophy of Science
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P. HUMPHREYS / Observation and Reliable Detection
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A. MUSGRAVE / Conceptual Idealism and Stove's Gem
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C. PENCO / Holism in Artifical Intelligence
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PART II: PHILOSOPHY OF PROBABILITY
B. DESJARDINS I Model Selection for Causal Theories
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S. FAJARDO I Nonstandard Analysis and a Classification of Probability Spaces
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M.C GALAVOTTI / Some Remarks on Objective Chance (P.P. Ramsey, K.R. Popper and N.R. Campbell)
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M.G. SANDRINI I Misapprehensions about Significance Tests and Bayesianism
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PART III: PHILOSOPHY AND FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
L. ACCARDI I The Quantum Probabilistic Approach to the Foundations of Quantum Theory: Urns and Chamaleons 95
D. AERTS, B. COECKE / The Creation-Discovery-View: Towards a Possible Explanation of Quantum Reality
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G. BACCIAGALUPPI, P.E. VERMAAS / Virtual Reality: Consequences
of No-Go Theorems for the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics R.C BISHOP, P.M. KRONZ I Is Chaos Indeterministic?
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G. BONIOLO / Wormholes and Timelike Curves: Is There Room for the
Grandfather Paradox?
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T. BREUER / John von Neumann met Kurt Godel: Undecidable
Statements in Quantum Mechanics
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N.C.A. DA COSTA, D. KRAUSE / Set-Theoretical Models for Quantum Systems 171 M. DEL SETA, M. SUAREZ / Non-Ideal Measurements and Physical Possibility in Quantum Mechanics
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M. DORATO / Time, Relativity, and the Spatiality of Mental Events
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A. DVURECENSKIJ
