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Grim, Patrick Neal was born on October 29, 1950 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Elgas Shull Grim and Dorathy Mae O'Neal.
( The central claim of this powerful philosophical explor...)
The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete.The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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( Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; ...)
Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; examples range from Plato's Cave and the Divided Line to Rawls's original position. What is new are the astounding computational resources now available for philosophical modeling. Although the computer cannot offer a substitute for philosophical research, it can offer an important new environment for philosophical research. The authors present a series of exploratory examples of computer modeling, using a range of computational techniques to illuminate a variety of questions in philosophy and philosophical logic. Topics include self-reference and paradox in fuzzy logics, varieties of epistemic chaos, fractal images of formal systems, and cellular automata models in game theory. Examples in the last category include models for the evolution of generosity, possible causes and cures for discrimination, and the formal undecidability of patterns of social and biological interaction. The cross-platform CD-ROM provided with the book contains a variety of working examples, in color and often operating dynamically, embedded in a text that parallels that of the book. Source code of all major programs is included to facilitate further research.
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(Complete course on audio cassettes - 24 lectures. include...)
Complete course on audio cassettes - 24 lectures. includes course guide books. by Patrick Grim, B. Phil., Ph.D - Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Grim, Patrick Neal was born on October 29, 1950 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Elgas Shull Grim and Dorathy Mae O'Neal.
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Anthropology, University California, Santa Cruz, 1971. Bachelor of Philosophy, University St. Andrews, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1976.
Mellon faculty fellow Washington University, St. Louis, 1977-1978. From assistant professor to professor State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1978-1994, professor, 1994—2001, distinguished teaching professor, since 2001. Weinberg District visiting professor University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006.
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( Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; ...)
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Fellow Academy Teachers/Scholars. Member International Association Philosophy of Law, American Philosophical Association, Cognitive Science Society, International Society Artificial Life, Philosophy Science Association.
Married L. Theresa Watkins.