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The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers
| The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers |
| Autore | Byers William |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Uncertainty (Information theory) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Algorithm Ambiguity Analogy Approximation Axiom Axiomatic system Basic research Big O notation Calculation Certainty Chaos theory Circumference Computation Concept Conjecture Consciousness Consistency Contingency (philosophy) Continuous function Continuum hypothesis Contradiction Counting David Bohm Dynamism (metaphysics) Emergence Euclidean geometry Explanation Feeling Fermat's Last Theorem Geometry Gestalt psychology Gregory Chaitin Gödel's incompleteness theorems Human behavior Human intelligence Hypothesis Ideology Inference Integer Irrational number Learning Logic Logical reasoning Mathematician Mathematics Measurement Methodology Modernity Molecule Natural number Nature Paradigm shift Paradox Participant Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science Philosophy Platonism Prediction Principle Probability Pythagoreanism Qualitative property Quantification (science) Quantity Quantum mechanics Randomness Rational number Rationality Real number Reality Reason Reductionism Relationship between religion and science Result Science Scientific method Scientific progress Scientific theory Scientist Self-reference Set theory Special case Subatomic particle Subjectivity Suggestion Technology The Philosopher Theorem Theoretical physics Theory of everything Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Uncertainty Universality (philosophy) Writing |
| ISBN |
1-283-00150-0
9786613001504 1-4008-3815-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781106903321 |
Byers William
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Logic in Question Talks from the Annual Sorbonne Logic Workshop (2011- 2019) / Jean-Yves Béziau ... [et al.] editors
| Logic in Question Talks from the Annual Sorbonne Logic Workshop (2011- 2019) / Jean-Yves Béziau ... [et al.] editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 750 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Boolean logic
History of logic Logical reasoning Philosophical Logic Philosophical thinking |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0276608 |
| Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Logic in Question Talks from the Annual Sorbonne Logic Workshop (2011-2019) / Jean-Yves Béziau ... [et al.] editors
| Logic in Question Talks from the Annual Sorbonne Logic Workshop (2011-2019) / Jean-Yves Béziau ... [et al.] editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 750 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
00B25 - Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest [MSC 2020]
01A25 - History of Chinese mathematics [MSC 2020] 01A55 - History of mathematics in the 19th century [MSC 2020] 03-XX - Mathematical logic and foundations [MSC 2020] 03A05 - Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations [MSC 2020] 03Bxx - General logic [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Boolean logic
History of logic Logical reasoning Philosophical Logic Philosophical thinking |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN00276608 |
| Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Logical Skills : Social-Historical Perspectives / Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Claude Rosental editors
| Logical Skills : Social-Historical Perspectives / Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Claude Rosental editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
03-XX - Mathematical logic and foundations [MSC 2020]
01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020] 00B15 - Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Anthropology of logic
History of logic Logical reasoning Logical skills as social norms Logical skills to assess rationality Logical skils Medieval notions of idiocy and rationality Natural logic Sociology of logic |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0274402 |
| Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Logical Skills : Social-Historical Perspectives / Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Claude Rosental editors
| Logical Skills : Social-Historical Perspectives / Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Claude Rosental editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
00B15 - Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest [MSC 2020]
01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020] 03-XX - Mathematical logic and foundations [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Anthropology of logic
History of logic Logical reasoning Logical skills as social norms Logical skills to assess rationality Logical skils Medieval notions of idiocy and rationality Natural logic Sociology of logic |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN00274402 |
| Cham, : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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