Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons beco…
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons beco…
Mathematics appears to be concerned with abstract objects such as numbers and sets. What are these objects? Oystein Linnebo develops a distinctive approach to ontology, in which abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familia…
"This book presents twelve original essays on historical and contemporary philosophical discussions of judgment. The central issues explored in this volume can be separated into two groups, namely those concerning the act and object of judgment. What kind of act is judgment? How…
"This book presents twelve original essays on historical and contemporary philosophical discussions of judgment. The central issues explored in this volume can be separated into two groups, namely those concerning the act and object of judgment. What kind of act is judgment? How…
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the comp…