Libri di Filosofia della scienza

Representation and explanation are distinct notions in the philosophy of science, since the first can be defined as an answer to a how-question, and the second as an answer to a why-question. In particular, the task of providing explanations has been traditionally attributed to scientific theories. These notions, however, are also strictly interrelated, like shown by the variety of the approaches offered by the papers included in this volume.

The papers collected in the present book deal with some of the most salient aspects of Turing’s whole work.

The contributions of this book investigate systematically and historically many aspects of the relations between science, metaphysics and religion.

After Gödel’s results the limitations of the three principal “foundational schools” became more and more evident, while the “working scientists” continued their activity caring more for the acquisition of “results” than for logical rigor. This “pragmatic turn” was perceivable also in philosophy of science due to an influence of pragmatism that replaced the previous influence of logical empiricism and analytic philosophy.

Fino a che punto i recenti sviluppi delle varie scienze che si occupano della mente hanno modificato l’immagine che abbiamo di noi stessi in quanto esseri umani? Il volume cerca di gettare una nuova luce sui rapporti che legano natura umana e natura artificiale, interrogandosi sulla possibilità di una mente “materiale” e sull’eventuale rilevanza del suo particolare substrato biologico.

Il volume intende considerare seriamente l’esternalismo in relazione al mentale, ovvero la convinzione che la mente si estenderebbe, almeno in parte, fuori dal corpo. Il testo analizza pertanto le principali teorie contemporanee che cercano di declinare tale convinzione in modi spesso assai diversi se non addirittura contrastanti.