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Hardcover:
9780199967407 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 2, 2013, cover price $73.00
Paperback:
9780190275549 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2015), cover price $35.00
Product Description: Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of...read more
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9780199937684 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2012), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of.
Hardcover:
9780199738946, titled "Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 2010, cover price $89.00
Product Description: Jody Azzouni argues in this original and exciting study that mathematical knowledge really is a special kind of knowledge with its own special means of gathering evidence. He analyzes the linguistic pitfalls and misperceptions philosophers in this field are often prone to, and explores the misapplications of epistemic principles from the empirical sciences to the exact sciences...read more
Hardcover:
9780521442237 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $99.99
Paperback:
9780521062190 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 15, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Jody Azzouni argues in this original and exciting study that mathematical knowledge really is a special kind of knowledge with its own special means of gathering evidence.
Product Description: When ordinary people-mathematicians among them-take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. Jody Azzouni investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians...read more
Hardcover:
9780195187137 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 1, 2005, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.
Paperback:
9780195370690 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 31, 2008, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When ordinary people-mathematicians among them-take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.
Hardcover:
9780195159882 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 8, 2004, cover price $105.00
Paperback:
9780195308679 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 13, 2006, cover price $51.00
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?In this book, Jodi Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.
Hardcover:
9780415223836 | Routledge, September 1, 2000, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge?
Paperback:
9780415333542 | Routledge, April 1, 2004, cover price $45.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203505403 | Routledge, February 1, 2004, cover price $40.23
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