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The emperor's new mind [[electronic resource] ] : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner
| The emperor's new mind [[electronic resource] ] : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner |
| Autore | Penrose Roger |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (633 p.) |
| Disciplina | 006.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Thought and thinking Physics - Philosophy Science - Philosophy Computers |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-92377-7
0-19-150640-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 CAN A COMPUTER HAVE A MIND?; Introduction; The Turing test; Artificial intelligence; An AI approach to 'pleasure' and 'pain'; Strong AI and Searle's Chinese room; Hardware and software; 2 ALGORITHMS AND TURING MACHINES; Background to the algorithm concept; Turing's concept; Binary coding of numerical data; The Church-Turing Thesis; Numbers other than natural numbers; The universal Turing machine; The insolubility of Hilbert's problem; How to outdo an algorithm; Church's lambda calculus; 3 MATHEMATICS AND REALITY; The land of Tor'Bled-Nam; Real numbers
How many real numbers are there?'Reality' of real numbers; Complex numbers; Construction of the Mandelbrot set; Platonic reality of mathematical concepts?; 4 TRUTH, PROOF, AND INSIGHT; Hilbert's programme for mathematics; Formal mathematical systems; Gödel's theorem; Mathematical insight; Platonism or intuitionism?; Gödel-type theorems from Turing's result; Recursively enumerable sets; Is the Mandelbrot set recursive?; Some examples of non-recursive mathematics; Is the Mandelbrot set like non-recursive mathematics?; Complexity theory; Complexity and computability in physical things 5 THE CLASSICAL WORLDThe status of physical theory; Euclidean geometry; The dynamics of Galileo and Newton; The mechanistic world of Newtonian dynamics; Is life in the billiard-ball world computable?; Hamiltonian mechanics; Phase space; Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; Computability and the wave equation; The Lorentz equation of motion; runaway particles; The special relativity of Einstein and Poincaré; Einstein's general relativity; Relativistic causality and determinism; Computability in classical physics: where do we stand?; Mass, matter, and reality; 6 QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY Do philosophers need quantum theory?Problems with classical theory; The beginnings of quantum theory; The two-slit experiment; Probability amplitudes; The quantum state of a particle; The uncertainty principle; The evolution procedures U and R; Particles in two places at once?; Hilbert space; Measurements; Spin and the Riemann sphere of states; Objectivity and measurability of quantum states; Copying a quantum state; Photon spin; Objects with large spin; Many-particle systems; The 'paradox' of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen; Experiments with photons: a problem for relativity? Schrödinger's equation Dirac's equation; Quantum field theory; Schrödinger's cat; Various attitudes in existing quantum theory; Where does all this leave us?; 7 COSMOLOGY AND THE ARROW OF TIME; The flow of time; The inexorable increase of entropy; What is entropy?; The second law in action; The origin of low entropy in the universe; Cosmology and the big bang; The primordial fireball; Does the big bang explain the second law?; Black holes; The structure of space-time singularities; How special was the big bang?; 8 IN SEARCH OF QUANTUM GRAVITY; Why quantum gravity? What lies behind the Weyl curvature hypothesis? |
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| Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
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The emperor's new mind [[electronic resource] ] : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner
| The emperor's new mind [[electronic resource] ] : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner |
| Autore | Penrose Roger |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (633 p.) |
| Disciplina | 006.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Thought and thinking Physics - Philosophy Science - Philosophy Computers |
| ISBN |
1-283-92377-7
0-19-150640-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 CAN A COMPUTER HAVE A MIND?; Introduction; The Turing test; Artificial intelligence; An AI approach to 'pleasure' and 'pain'; Strong AI and Searle's Chinese room; Hardware and software; 2 ALGORITHMS AND TURING MACHINES; Background to the algorithm concept; Turing's concept; Binary coding of numerical data; The Church-Turing Thesis; Numbers other than natural numbers; The universal Turing machine; The insolubility of Hilbert's problem; How to outdo an algorithm; Church's lambda calculus; 3 MATHEMATICS AND REALITY; The land of Tor'Bled-Nam; Real numbers
How many real numbers are there?'Reality' of real numbers; Complex numbers; Construction of the Mandelbrot set; Platonic reality of mathematical concepts?; 4 TRUTH, PROOF, AND INSIGHT; Hilbert's programme for mathematics; Formal mathematical systems; Gödel's theorem; Mathematical insight; Platonism or intuitionism?; Gödel-type theorems from Turing's result; Recursively enumerable sets; Is the Mandelbrot set recursive?; Some examples of non-recursive mathematics; Is the Mandelbrot set like non-recursive mathematics?; Complexity theory; Complexity and computability in physical things 5 THE CLASSICAL WORLDThe status of physical theory; Euclidean geometry; The dynamics of Galileo and Newton; The mechanistic world of Newtonian dynamics; Is life in the billiard-ball world computable?; Hamiltonian mechanics; Phase space; Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; Computability and the wave equation; The Lorentz equation of motion; runaway particles; The special relativity of Einstein and Poincaré; Einstein's general relativity; Relativistic causality and determinism; Computability in classical physics: where do we stand?; Mass, matter, and reality; 6 QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY Do philosophers need quantum theory?Problems with classical theory; The beginnings of quantum theory; The two-slit experiment; Probability amplitudes; The quantum state of a particle; The uncertainty principle; The evolution procedures U and R; Particles in two places at once?; Hilbert space; Measurements; Spin and the Riemann sphere of states; Objectivity and measurability of quantum states; Copying a quantum state; Photon spin; Objects with large spin; Many-particle systems; The 'paradox' of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen; Experiments with photons: a problem for relativity? Schrödinger's equation Dirac's equation; Quantum field theory; Schrödinger's cat; Various attitudes in existing quantum theory; Where does all this leave us?; 7 COSMOLOGY AND THE ARROW OF TIME; The flow of time; The inexorable increase of entropy; What is entropy?; The second law in action; The origin of low entropy in the universe; Cosmology and the big bang; The primordial fireball; Does the big bang explain the second law?; Black holes; The structure of space-time singularities; How special was the big bang?; 8 IN SEARCH OF QUANTUM GRAVITY; Why quantum gravity? What lies behind the Weyl curvature hypothesis? |
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Penrose Roger
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| Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emperor's new mind : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner
| The emperor's new mind : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / / Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner |
| Autore | Penrose Roger |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (633 p.) |
| Disciplina |
006.3
153.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Thought and thinking Physics - Philosophy Science - Philosophy Computers |
| ISBN |
1-283-92377-7
0-19-150640-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 CAN A COMPUTER HAVE A MIND?; Introduction; The Turing test; Artificial intelligence; An AI approach to 'pleasure' and 'pain'; Strong AI and Searle's Chinese room; Hardware and software; 2 ALGORITHMS AND TURING MACHINES; Background to the algorithm concept; Turing's concept; Binary coding of numerical data; The Church-Turing Thesis; Numbers other than natural numbers; The universal Turing machine; The insolubility of Hilbert's problem; How to outdo an algorithm; Church's lambda calculus; 3 MATHEMATICS AND REALITY; The land of Tor'Bled-Nam; Real numbers
How many real numbers are there?'Reality' of real numbers; Complex numbers; Construction of the Mandelbrot set; Platonic reality of mathematical concepts?; 4 TRUTH, PROOF, AND INSIGHT; Hilbert's programme for mathematics; Formal mathematical systems; Gödel's theorem; Mathematical insight; Platonism or intuitionism?; Gödel-type theorems from Turing's result; Recursively enumerable sets; Is the Mandelbrot set recursive?; Some examples of non-recursive mathematics; Is the Mandelbrot set like non-recursive mathematics?; Complexity theory; Complexity and computability in physical things 5 THE CLASSICAL WORLDThe status of physical theory; Euclidean geometry; The dynamics of Galileo and Newton; The mechanistic world of Newtonian dynamics; Is life in the billiard-ball world computable?; Hamiltonian mechanics; Phase space; Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; Computability and the wave equation; The Lorentz equation of motion; runaway particles; The special relativity of Einstein and Poincaré; Einstein's general relativity; Relativistic causality and determinism; Computability in classical physics: where do we stand?; Mass, matter, and reality; 6 QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY Do philosophers need quantum theory?Problems with classical theory; The beginnings of quantum theory; The two-slit experiment; Probability amplitudes; The quantum state of a particle; The uncertainty principle; The evolution procedures U and R; Particles in two places at once?; Hilbert space; Measurements; Spin and the Riemann sphere of states; Objectivity and measurability of quantum states; Copying a quantum state; Photon spin; Objects with large spin; Many-particle systems; The 'paradox' of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen; Experiments with photons: a problem for relativity? Schrödinger's equation Dirac's equation; Quantum field theory; Schrödinger's cat; Various attitudes in existing quantum theory; Where does all this leave us?; 7 COSMOLOGY AND THE ARROW OF TIME; The flow of time; The inexorable increase of entropy; What is entropy?; The second law in action; The origin of low entropy in the universe; Cosmology and the big bang; The primordial fireball; Does the big bang explain the second law?; Black holes; The structure of space-time singularities; How special was the big bang?; 8 IN SEARCH OF QUANTUM GRAVITY; Why quantum gravity? What lies behind the Weyl curvature hypothesis? |
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Penrose Roger
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| Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encyclopedia of the mind / / editor-in-chief, Harold Pashler
| Encyclopedia of the mind / / editor-in-chief, Harold Pashler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Thousand Oaks, California : , : SAGE Publications, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (897 p.) |
| Disciplina | 150 |
| Soggetto topico | Thought and thinking |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78268-937-0
1-4522-7721-4 1-4522-5704-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | C; Volume 1; Title Page, Volume 1; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; About the Editor-in-Chief; Contributors; Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; Volume 2; Title Page, Volume 2; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480938403321 |
| Thousand Oaks, California : , : SAGE Publications, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encyclopedia of the mind / / edited by Harold Pashler, University of California at San Diego
| Encyclopedia of the mind / / edited by Harold Pashler, University of California at San Diego |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxvi, 839)) |
| Disciplina | 150 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico | Thought and thinking |
| ISBN |
1-5063-1938-6
1-78268-937-0 1-4522-7721-4 1-4522-5704-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | C; Volume 1; Title Page, Volume 1; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; About the Editor-in-Chief; Contributors; Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; Volume 2; Title Page, Volume 2; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786128303321 |
| Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encyclopedia of the mind / / edited by Harold Pashler, University of California at San Diego
| Encyclopedia of the mind / / edited by Harold Pashler, University of California at San Diego |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxvi, 839)) |
| Disciplina | 150 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico | Thought and thinking |
| ISBN |
1-5063-1938-6
1-78268-937-0 1-4522-7721-4 1-4522-5704-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | C; Volume 1; Title Page, Volume 1; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; About the Editor-in-Chief; Contributors; Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; Volume 2; Title Page, Volume 2; Contents; List of Entries; Reader's Guide; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807065003321 |
| Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epistemologia della formazione [[electronic resource] /] / Michel Fabre ; prefazione di Umberto Margiotta ; a cura di Ivana Padoan
| Epistemologia della formazione [[electronic resource] /] / Michel Fabre ; prefazione di Umberto Margiotta ; a cura di Ivana Padoan |
| Autore | Fabre Michel <1948-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bologna, : CLUEB, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 238 p |
| Disciplina | 370 |
| Collana | Heuresis. |
| Soggetto topico |
Education$xPhilosophy - Philosophy
Thought and thinking Teaching |
| ISBN | 88-491-1226-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132982703321 |
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Fabre Michel <1948->
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| Bologna, : CLUEB, 1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi
| Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi |
| Autore | Audi Robert <1941-, > |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121 |
| Collana | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Thought and thinking |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-136-93446-4
1-136-93447-2 1-282-88273-2 9786612882739 0-203-84646-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgments to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgments to the third edition; Introduction: A sketch of the sources and nature of belief, justification, and knowledge; Part One: Sources of justification, knowledge, and truth; 1 Perception: Sensing, believing, and knowing; 2 Theories of perception: Sense experience, appearances, and reality; 3 Memory: The preservation and reconstruction of the past
4 Consciousness: The life of the mind5 Reason I: Understanding, insight, and intellectual power; 6 Reason II: Meaning, necessity, and provability; 7 Testimony: The social foundation of knowledge; Part Two: The structure and growth of justification and knowledge; 8 Inference and the extension of knowledge; 9 The architecture of knowledge; Part Three: The nature and scope of justification and knowledge; 10 The analysis of knowledge: Justification, certainty, and reliability; 11 Knowledge, justification, and truth: Internalism, externalism, and intellectual virtue 12 Scientific, moral, and religious knowledge13 Skepticism I: The quest for certainty; 14 Skepticism II: The defense of common sense in the face of fallibility; 15 Conclusion; Short annotated bibliography of books in epistemology; Index |
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Audi Robert <1941-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi
| Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi |
| Autore | Audi Robert <1941-, > |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121 |
| Collana | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Thought and thinking |
| ISBN |
1-136-93446-4
1-136-93447-2 1-282-88273-2 9786612882739 0-203-84646-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgments to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgments to the third edition; Introduction: A sketch of the sources and nature of belief, justification, and knowledge; Part One: Sources of justification, knowledge, and truth; 1 Perception: Sensing, believing, and knowing; 2 Theories of perception: Sense experience, appearances, and reality; 3 Memory: The preservation and reconstruction of the past
4 Consciousness: The life of the mind5 Reason I: Understanding, insight, and intellectual power; 6 Reason II: Meaning, necessity, and provability; 7 Testimony: The social foundation of knowledge; Part Two: The structure and growth of justification and knowledge; 8 Inference and the extension of knowledge; 9 The architecture of knowledge; Part Three: The nature and scope of justification and knowledge; 10 The analysis of knowledge: Justification, certainty, and reliability; 11 Knowledge, justification, and truth: Internalism, externalism, and intellectual virtue 12 Scientific, moral, and religious knowledge13 Skepticism I: The quest for certainty; 14 Skepticism II: The defense of common sense in the face of fallibility; 15 Conclusion; Short annotated bibliography of books in epistemology; Index |
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Audi Robert <1941-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi
| Epistemology : a contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge / / Robert Audi |
| Autore | Audi Robert <1941-, > |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121 |
| Collana | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Thought and thinking |
| ISBN |
1-136-93446-4
1-136-93447-2 1-282-88273-2 9786612882739 0-203-84646-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgments to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgments to the third edition; Introduction: A sketch of the sources and nature of belief, justification, and knowledge; Part One: Sources of justification, knowledge, and truth; 1 Perception: Sensing, believing, and knowing; 2 Theories of perception: Sense experience, appearances, and reality; 3 Memory: The preservation and reconstruction of the past
4 Consciousness: The life of the mind5 Reason I: Understanding, insight, and intellectual power; 6 Reason II: Meaning, necessity, and provability; 7 Testimony: The social foundation of knowledge; Part Two: The structure and growth of justification and knowledge; 8 Inference and the extension of knowledge; 9 The architecture of knowledge; Part Three: The nature and scope of justification and knowledge; 10 The analysis of knowledge: Justification, certainty, and reliability; 11 Knowledge, justification, and truth: Internalism, externalism, and intellectual virtue 12 Scientific, moral, and religious knowledge13 Skepticism I: The quest for certainty; 14 Skepticism II: The defense of common sense in the face of fallibility; 15 Conclusion; Short annotated bibliography of books in epistemology; Index |
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Audi Robert <1941-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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