The second edition of Thinking Things Through presents a compelling vision of philosophy as foundational to the scientific enterprise. Glymour animates, and contributes to, the grand tradition of philosophical engagement with the sciences embodied, for example, in the work of Descartes, Leibniz, Bayes, Boole, Godel, and Turing, by elucidating fundamental logical, statistical, computational, and decision-theoretic notions that are crucial to understanding virtually every aspect of contemporary life. There is no finer introduction to philosophy than this masterfully crafted celebration of its stunning achievements. -- Scott Weinstein, Professor of Philosophy and of Computer and Information Science and Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Clark Glymour is Alumni University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He is the author of The Mind's Arrows- Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology (MIT Press), Galileo in Pittsburgh, and other books.
I have never encountered an introductory text like this one. As far
as textbooks go, it is distinctive. It attempts to present a side
of philosophy that has been hidden from the view of all but its
practitioners. Real philosophy can be formal and rigorous in the
very same ways in which mathematics and physical science are formal
and rigorous. Glymour's book should make a good many people proud
to be philosophers in the twentieth century."- Douglas Stalker,
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Delaware
- Douglas Stalker, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Delaware
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