The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions and reconstructions of aspects of Polish philosophy and logic as well as reactions…
This book is the first modern examination of the philosophical foundations of intuitionism since Oscar Becker's (1927) Mathematische Existenz. Placek examines the three most widely-known arguments for mathematical intuitionism: Brouwer's, Heyting's and Dummett's. The examination…
by Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord., Division des affaires scientifiques, Butterfield, Jeremy, Placek, Tomasz, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Modality, Probability, and Bell's Theorems, (Kraków, Poland)
fromNATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and c…
Quantum theory is the most successful of all physical theories: it has a towering mathematical structure, a vast range of accurate predictions, and technological applications. Its interpretation, however, is as unsettled now as in the heroic days of Einstein and Bohr. This book …
