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Where Mathematical Symbols Come From. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract There is a sense in which the symbols used in mathematical expressions and formulas are arbitrary. After all, arithmetic would be no different if we would replace the symbols ‘+$+$’ or ‘8’ by different symbols. Nevertheless, the shape of many mathematical symbols is in fact well motivated in practice.
Schlimm D.
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Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience. [PDF]

Eur J Neurosci
Reductionist methods inspire several seemingly incompatible explanations and ontologies. But such adversarial approaches can be fruitful for theorising in neuroscience. We argue that reductionist methods are at their most useful when coupled with integrative practices that include multiple heterarchical levels of organisation, various kinds of analysis,
Mace C, O'Sullivan F, Wilson SR.
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The Politics of Carnap’s Non-Cognitivism and the Scientific World-Conception of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism

Perspectives in Science, 2021
Based on a reconstruction of the development of Rudolf Carnap’s views from the Aufbau until the 1960s, this paper provides an account of the philosopher’s understanding of non-cognitivism, which is here seen as in line with the so-called scientific world-
Christian Damböck
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Completeness: From Husserl to Carnap

Logica Universalis, 2021
In his Doppelvortrag (1901), Edmund Husserl introduced two concepts of “definiteness” which have been interpreted as a vindication of his role in the history of completeness.
Víctor Aranda
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Carnap and Beth on the Limits of Tolerance

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Rudolf Carnap’s principle of tolerance states that there is no need to justify the adoption of a logic by philosophical means. Carnap uses the freedom provided by this principle in his philosophy of mathematics: he wants to capture the idea that ...
Benjamin Marschall
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What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics.

Studies in history and philosophy of science, 2021
Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics is often cast as positivist and sometimes explicitly claimed to be influenced by logical positivists due to some similarities in their thinking. While it is certainly the case that some logical positivists
J. Faye, Rasmus Jaksland
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Carnap meets Foucault: conceptual engineering and genealogical investigations

Inquiry, 2020
What is the relevance of historical, and in particular genealogical, investigations for projects of conceptual engineering? I address this question by bringing together two prominent authors in each of these traditions: Foucault for genealogy, and Carnap
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
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Werte beim frühen Carnap: Von den Anfängen bis zum Aufbau

, 2021
Die fruhesten Zeugnisse zu Carnaps philosophischer Entwicklung bekunden einen klaren und bewusten Nonkognitivismus, wie vor allem an einem Vortrag aus dem Jahre 1911 gezeigt wird.
A. Carus
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El desarrollo como pseudoconcepto: análisis lógico desde Rudolf Carnap

Administración & Desarrollo, 2020
El presente escrito tiene como objeto central mostrar el porqué de definir el desarrollo humano como pseudoconcepto, para esto se realiza el análisis lógico del concepto desde los planteamientos propuestos por Rudolf Carnap.
Christian Alexis Pedroza Beltrán
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Carnap's Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate [PDF]

, 2016
Eklund, Matti
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