Author: Michael Detlefsen
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: formalization, logic, proof
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1992-02-13
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415023351
ISBN-13: 9780415023351

Proof, Logic and Formalization addresses the various problems associated with finding a philosophically satisfying account of mathematical proof. It brings together many of the most notable figures currently writing on this issue in an attempt to explain why it is that mathematical proof is given prominence over other forms of mathematical justification. The difficulties that arise in accounts of proof range from the rightful role of logical inference and formalization to questions concerning the place of experience in proof and the possibility of eliminating impredicative reasoning from proof

Author: Alfred Tarski and Steven Givant
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: amer, mathematical, soc, publications, colloquium, theory, variables, formalization
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1987-12-31
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 0821810413
ISBN-13: 9780821810415

Completed in 1983, this work culminates nearly half a century of the late Alfred Tarski’s foundational studies in logic, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Written in collaboration with Steven Givant, the book appeals to a very broad audience, and requires only a familiarity with first-order logic. It is of great interest to logicians and mathematicians interested in the foundations of mathematics, but also to philosophers interested in logic, semantics, algebraic logic, or the methodology of the deductive sciences, and to computer scientists interested in developing very simple

Authors:Toufik Taibi, Toufik Taibi,
Publisher: IGI Publishing
Keywords: techniques, formalization, pattern, design
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1599042193
ISBN-13: 9781599042190

Many formal approaches for pattern specification are emerging as a means to cope with the inherent shortcomings of informal description. Design Pattern Formalization Techniques presents multiple mathematical, formal approaches for pattern specification, emphasizing on software development processes for engineering disciplines. Design Pattern Formalization Techniques focuses on formalizing the solution element of patterns, providing tangible benefits to pattern users, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners and students working in the field of design patterns and software reuse. D

Authors:Robert Baker, R.B. Baker,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nineteenth, morality, medical, eighteenth, century, western, studies, historical, philosophical, codification, formalization
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-10-31
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0792335295
ISBN-13: 9780792335290

The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association’s 1847 Code of Ethics