the philosophy of mathematical practice

... whether there are not also other tasks for the philosophy of mathematics, tasks that arise either from the current practice of mathematics or from the history of the subject. A small number of ... from the notion of a mathematical practice, ² Kitcher’s aim was to account for the rationality of the growth of mathematics in terms of transitions between math...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:32

... itself, a philosophy of mathematics; rather, it is a position on the proper relations between the philosophy of mathematics and the practice of mathematics. Similar visualizing in mathematics 35 the ... attention to mathematical practice, we are the inheritors of several traditions of work in philosophy of mathematics. In the rest of this introduction, I w...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:35

... meaning thereby just that they feel, see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of minded things just insofar as they ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with the philo-...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... alert other monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator. 19 One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles, another the presence of snakes, and yet another the presence of ... OF MENTAL CONTENT These advantages of the teleological theory of representation over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it to the case of mental...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... in Philosophy of Psycho- logy, Volume 1. An introduction to the philosophy of mind50 suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of a bundle of human neurones, or the states of ... how- ever, one might think of identifying the type to which our particular chessman belongs in terms of the type of material object which plays the role of the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... and their position relative to one another – things such as the colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their ... in the ‘blind’ regions of their visual fields? After all, they them- selves strongly deny that they can see anything there. If the answer is given that they must be seeing some...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... general validity of the ideas the group has generated. 2.1. THE EMERGENCE OF THE NOTION OF ‘TRANSITION’ AS AN INTEREST OF THE GROUP The focus on understanding how participation in home mathematical practices ... stage theories, rarely is the concept found in the subject index of general developmental psychology books. One of the key criticisms of stage theori...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... could. On the other hand, the new synthesis accepts the ethical ideal of concern for all humans ; it embraces the democratic faith in the worth of the individual and seeks the welfare of all ... have arrived at the philoso- phy through the critical study of the materials of religion and the effort to meet the needs of their people in terms of to- day’s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... dissimilar. In the case of the spider and the sparrow there is no teaching, and, of course, no learning. Their first web, and their first nest, are as perfect as the last; but in the case of the infant, ... view of the educational processes of Nature, we find them arranging themselves under four great divisions, blending into each other, no doubt, like the kingdo...

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