More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy - Second Edition

Steinhart, Eric

ISBN 10: 155481345X / ISBN 13: 9781554813452

Verlag: Broadview Press, 2017

pp. 256. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18378826009

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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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Titel: More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do ...
Verlag: Broadview Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New
Auflage: 2. Auflage