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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]] ...

...continued to teach courses and advise students until his death at 83 years of age. ...ity. One of his proponents in Sweden was [[Per Lindström]].<ref>''Handbook of world philosophy'' by John Roy Burr, 1980. {{ISBN|0-313-22381-5}} (page 186 ...

{{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 ...

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

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) ...

...ross section of Norton's dome, where ''h'' and ''x'' are measured in units of <math> 2g^2/(3b^4)</math>.]] ...ystem? The view from Norton's dome|journal=European Journal for Philosophy of Science|volume=2|issue=3|pages=275–297|doi=10.1007/s13194-011-0040-8|citese ...

{{Short description|Type of fallacy in modal logic}} ...hat there is no situation that would cause the statement to be false. Some philosophers further argue that a necessarily true statement must be true in all [[Possi ...

{{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. ...

{{Short description|Concept in the science of signs}} ...ology''') is a concept in the field of [[semiotics]], which is the science of signs. ...

...-indian-languages/first-steps-to-jainism-part-2/the-indian-jaina-dialectic-of-syadvad-part-2/|website=Jain World|accessdate=28 November 2016}} (Dialectic ...ic and the Philosophical Basis of Pluralism|journal=History and Philosophy of Logic|date=2002|volume=23|issue=4 |pages=267–281|url=https://www.academia.e ...

...epeated head-to-head matchups, voters will (on average) prefer the results of a maximal lottery to the results produced by any other [[voting rule]]. ...ttp://dss.in.tum.de/files/brandt-research/welfare.pdf Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences]. Econometrica. 88(2), pages 799-844, 2020.</ref> ...

{{short description|System of propositional logic developed by the Stoic philosophers}} ...the system of [[propositional logic]] developed by the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosophers in [[ancient Greece]]. ...

| workplaces = [[Queen Mary, University of London]] | alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[Harvard University]] ...

...ts of these protocols is that they put few restrictions on the preferences of the partners, and ask the partners only simple queries such as "which piece ...s to be divided among ''n'' partners with different preferences over parts of the cake. The cake has to be divided to ''n'' pieces such that: (a) each pa ...

{{Short description|Theorized increase of longevity with age}} ...ref> Where the Lindy effect applies, [[mortality rate]] ''decreases'' with time. Mathematically, the Lindy effect corresponds to lifetimes following a [[Pa ...

| birth_place = [[Montecorvino Rovella]], [[Kingdom of Naples]] | death_place = [[Naples]], [[Kingdom of Naples]] ...

...n on following a specific set of statistics depending on the configuration of the device. ...in's device is a pedagogical tool to introduce the unconventional features of quantum mechanics to a larger public. ...

...first to counter-intuitive choices, and then to incoherence as the utility of every choice becomes unbounded. ...many objections to the Pascal's Wager dilemma that are based on the nature of infinity.{{Sfn|Bostrom|2009}} ...

...ot limited to) [[Quantum entanglement|entanglement]], [[noncommutativity]] of measurements, [[quantum teleportation|teleportation]], [[interference (wave ...ally accepted by physicists today. There is, however, a substantial subset of physicists who take the epistemic view. Both views have issues associated w ...

...philosopher of science [[Mark Colyvan]] that argues for an inertial model of [[population dynamics]]. ...pplementary adjustments can always be made to prevent a complete rejection of the law.<ref name=":1" /> ...