More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy - Softcover

Steinhart, Eric

 
9781554813452: More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 155481345X ISBN 13: 9781554813452
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2017

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More Precisely is a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. Eric Steinhart provides lucid explanations of many basic mathematical concepts and sets out the most commonly used notational conventions. He also demonstrates how mathematics applies to fundamental issues in various branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics. This second edition adds a substantial section on decision and game theory, as well as a chapter on information theory and the efficient coding of information.

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Eric Steinhart is a professor of philosophy at William Paterson University. He is the author of Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), On Nietzsche (Wadsworth, 1999), and The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds (Kluwer Academic, 2001).

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More Precisely is a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. Eric Steinhart provides lucid explanations of many basic mathematical concepts and sets out the most commonly used notational conventions. He also demonstrates how mathematics applies to fundamental issues in various branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics. This second edition adds a substantial section on decision and game theory, as well as a chapter on information theory and the efficient coding of information.

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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
155481345X
ISBN 13 
9781554813452
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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