Authors:Dennis Dieks, P.E. Vermaas,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, philosophy, science, ontario, western, interpretation, quantum, mechanics, modal
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1998-10-31
List price: $191.00
ISBN-10: 0792352076
ISBN-13: 9780792352075

According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which have definite values. Probabilities are assigned to the possible values that these magnitudes may adopt. The interpretation is thus concerned with physical properties rather than with measurement results: it is a realistic interpretation (in the sense of scientific realism). One of the notable achievements of this interpretation is that it dissolves the notorious measurement problem. The papers collected here, together with the introduct

Authors:Robert E. Butts, Jaakko Hintikka,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, philosophy, science, ontario, western, problems, special, sciences, foundational
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1977-10-31
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 9027707103
ISBN-13: 9789027707109

Part two of the proceedings of the fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada, August 27 - September 2, 1975

Author: Norman Knowles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: themes, pasts, canadian, social, history, usable, creation, loyalists, ontario, loyalist, tradition, inventing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-10-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080207913X
ISBN-13: 9780802079138

The Loyalists have often been credited with planting a coherent and unified tradition that has been passed on virtually unchanged to subsequent generations and that continues to define Ontario’s political culture. Challenging past scholarship, Norman Knowles argues that there never has been consensus on the defining characteristics of the Loyalist tradition. He suggests that, in fact, the very concept of tradition has constantly been subject to appropriation by various constituencies who wish to legitimize their point of view and their claim to status by creating a usable past. The pi

Author: Chris Armstrong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: regulation, share, markets, canada, commission, securities, pastures, mergers, ontario, moose
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0802035108
ISBN-13: 9780802035103

Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada’s leading securities regulator. Following the war, the OSC concerned itself primarily with fraudsters and attempts to reign in Toronto’s boiler rooms, but by the mid-sixties increasingly soph

Author: V. Coelho
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, series, philosophy, ontario, western, galileo, music
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1992-11-30
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 079232028X
ISBN-13: 9780792320289

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo’s time. The essays take a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo’s experiments and in the scientific revolution, the musical formation of scientists, Galileo’s impact on the art and music of his time, the scientific knowledge of instrument builders, and th

Author: Peter Oliver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: society, osgoode, canadian, legal, history, harrison, robert, diaries, man, ontario, chief, justice, conventional
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0802088422
ISBN-13: 9780802088420

Between 1856 and 1878, Robert A. Harrison kept a diary. Harrison, a Toronto lawyer often described as the outstanding common law lawyer of his generation, was Chief Justice of Ontario during that time and his diary is one of the most remarkable documents bequeathed to us by the nineteenth century. In it, Harrison provides detailed and intimate accounts of life and love among Toronto’s upper crust, accounts that resound with ambition, passion, jealousy and rage as his life proceeds through courtships, marriages, deaths and all the throes and challenges of routine existence among the privi

Authors:Denis Fisette, D. Fisette,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ontario, series, philosophy, science, western, attribution, intentionality, models, modalities, consciousness
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $217.00
ISBN-10: 0792359070
ISBN-13: 9780792359074

The papers collected here had their origin in a conference held in Montreal, 1-3 June 1995. The conference drew together researchers of all persuasions, from Europe and North America, to discuss the philosophy of mind. The volume is divided into four sections, each section being prefaced by a specific introduction. The first section deals mainly with the problem of consciousness in relation to intentionality. The second section’s main topic is the problem of `qualia’, a notion closely related to phenomenal consciousness, approached in the context of perception. The last t