Language, Quantum, Music: Selected Contributed Papers of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995

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Roberto Giuntini, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Federico Laudisa
Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 31, 1999 - Mathematics - 338 pages
A vivid and comprehensive picture of the current state of research in all directions of logic and philosophy of science. The book presents a wide combination of papers containing relevant technical results in the foundations of science and papers devoted to conceptual analyses, deeply rooted in advanced present-day research.
Audience: The volume is attractive both for specialists in foundational questions and scholars interested in general epistemology.
 

Contents

Realism Idealism and General Terms
1
Toward a Complex Dynamical Philosophy of Science
7
Observation and Reliable Detection
19
Conceptual Idealism and Stoves Gem
25
Holism in Artificial Intelligence
37
Model Selection for Casual Theories
49
Nonstandard Analysis and a Classification of Probability Spaces
61
Some Remarks on Objective Chance FP Ramsey KR Popper and NR Campbell
73
SetTheoretical Models for Quantum Systems
171
NonIdeal Measurements and Physical Possibility in Quantum Mechanics
183
Time Relativity and the Spatiality of Mental Events
197
BellType Inequalities and Orthomodular Lattices
209
An Informal Presentation of Semantic Realism and Its Solution of Quantum Paradoxes
219
Individualistic Versus Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
231
The Locality Scandal of Quantum Mechanics
241
Uncertainty and Dependence in Classical and Quantum Logicthe Role of Triangular Norms
249

Misapprehensions about Significance Tests and Bayesianism
83
Urns and Chamaleons
95
Towards a Possible Explanation of Quantum Reality
105
Consequences of NoGo Theorems for the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
117
Is Chaos Indeterministic?
129
Is There Room for the Grandfather Paradox?
143
Undecidable Statements in Quantum Mechanics
159
Quantum Logics and Quantum Measurements
263
Attempt at the Logical Explanation of the Waveparticle duality
269
The BohrEinstein Photon Box Debate
283
Kantianism and Physics from the 19th to the 20th Century
293
Epimoric Ratios and Greek Musical Theory
303
Music and Science
327
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