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Modi diversi di concepire l’effetto placebo
No full textAfter the presentation of a logical joke that could be used to get a placebo
effect, the important question of how the placebo effect can be conceptually identified is addressed with reference to the different approaches by Adolf Grünbaum and by Howard Brody. The first is highly abstract and general, and is about how to state rigorous definitions. The second provides some ideas and some evidence for an explanatory unified theory of many placebo phenomena. Although Grünbaum’s methodological concerns are justified, Brody’s contribution looks more interesting as it tries to be more informative about the nature of the placebo effect
Computational and Non Computational notions for the Description and Explanation of Deductive Errors
No full textHintikka, J., The principles of mathematics revisited, Cambridge university press, Cambridge 1996, pp. xii + 288.
No full textRecensione di: Johansson I, Lynøe N., Medicine & Philosophy. A Twenty-First Century Introduction, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2008, pp. 475
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The Paradox of Knowability from a Russellian Perspective
Full text linkThe paradox of knowability and the debate about it are shortly presented. Some assumptions which appear more or less tacitly involved in its discussion are made explicit. They are embedded and integrated in a Russellian framework, where a formal paradox, very similar to the Russell-Myhill paradox, is derived. Its solution is provided within a Russellian formal logic introduced by A. Church. It follows that knowledge should be typed. Some relevant aspects of the typing of knowledge are pointed out
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