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...Toronto]] <small>([[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]])</small><br />[[University of California, Berkeley]] <small>([[Ph.D.]])</small> ...[[philosophy of language]], [[philosophy of mathematics]], [[philosophy of mind]] ...

The '''Princeton Science Library''' is a [[book series]] of [[popular science]] written by scientists known for their popular writings * ''[[Flatland]]: A Romance of Many Dimensions'' by [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] (1884) ...

{{Short description|School of thought within decision theory}} ...sion theory]] (EDT), which recommends the action which would be indicative of the best outcome if one received the "news" that it had been taken.<ref nam ...

{{Short description|Argument in philosophy of mathematics}} ...ics)|mathematical structuralism]].<ref>Stewart Shapiro (1997) ''Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology'' New York: Oxford University Press, p. ...

{{Distinguish|text=[[Principia Mathematica]]—a book of Russell and Whitehead published in 1910–1913}} | name = The Principles of Mathematics ...

...s New Mind]]'' (1989), where he used it to provide the basis of his theory of consciousness: [[orchestrated objective reduction]]. ...truth"). However, Gödel's statement is actually true in the standard model of natural numbers. See {{cite book |author=Mendelson, Elliot |title=Introduct ...

{{Short description|Argument for the existence of God}} ...d ''[[A priori and a posteriori|a priori]]'' in regard to the organization of the universe, whereby, if such organizational structure is true, [[God]] mu ...

...n Intellectual Biography|last=Brobjer|first=Thomas H.|publisher=University Of Illinois Press|year=2008|isbn=9780252032455|pages=149}}</ref> ...88|location=Münchenpages=12}}</ref> Mainländer aims to free the philosophy of Schopenhauer from its metaphysical tendencies.<ref name=Mainlander/>{{rp|60 ...

...ed works across a diverse range of subjects including the curative effects of [[hypnotism]].<ref name=":2" /> ...irst two notes on optical illusions in the Bulletin of the [[Royal Academy of Belgium]].<ref name=":43"/> He then began his research in [[psychophysics]] ...

...[[wikt:doxastic|doxastic]] attitude. For example, a perceptual experience of a tree may serve as evidence to justify the belief that there is a tree. In ...[[theory-ladenness]] are two obstacles that threaten to undermine the role of scientific evidence. ...

...orial board. In 1928, Hilbert had Brouwer removed from the editorial board of ''Mathematische Annalen''. ...graphy of [[Kurt Gödel]], [[John W. Dawson, Jr]], observed that "partisans of three principal philosophical positions took part in the debate"<ref name=" ...

...447).jpg|thumb|320px|[[Peter Singer]] is one of the prominent philosophers of [[effective altruism]].]] ...c/pdf/openaccess/9780197757376.pdf |title=Effective altruism and the human mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition |last2=Caviola |first2=Lucius |date ...

...ater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] | footnotes = He was the father of [[William De Morgan]]. ...

{{short description|Study of the scope and nature of logic}} ...to the philosophy of logic as the discipline investigating the properties of formal logical systems, like [[consistency]] and [[Completeness (logic)|com ...

...sciousness: here, there and everywhere?|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|language=en|volume=370|issue=1668| .... Therefore, it should be possible to account for the conscious experience of a physical system by unfolding its complete causal powers.<ref name=Tononi2 ...

...ed Z. Buchwald|author2=Robert Fox|title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SxoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=10 ...coveries later played prominent roles in physical theories, as in the case of the conic sections in [[celestial mechanics]].]] ...

{{About||the symbol|Infinity symbol|other uses of "Infinity" and "Infinite"}} ...|The [[Sierpiński triangle]] contains infinitely many (scaled-down) copies of itself.]] ...

...s]], in which case there exists no well-defined optimal choice. An example of this is [[Efron dice]]. ...s://plato.stanford.edu/entries/preferences/ |journal=Stanford Encyclopedia of Economics}}</ref> ...

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{{short description|1676 demonstration of light's finite speed by Danish astronomer Ole Rømer}} ...ment official in his native [[Denmark]] after his discovery of the [[speed of light]] (1676). The engraving is probably posthumous.]] ...