Philosophy: logic

Philosophy For Life is the definitive introduction to the history of Western thought, but more than that, it is a toolkit for using philosophy in your daily life.

After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves.

In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student's education.

This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh's scholarly work.

This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory.

This book honors the original and influential work by Goran Sundholm in the fields of the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics.

This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.

This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes: Newcomb's problem, the Monty Hall problem, the two-envelope paradox, the sorites paradox, and the Sleeping Beauty problem.

Originally published in 1986.

This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts).

This volume collects nine essays that investigate the work of Gottlob Frege.

This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.

Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline.

In this book Jeffrey A.

Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy's most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions.

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This volume honours the life and work of Solomon Feferman, one of the most prominent mathematical logicians of the latter half of the 20th century.

Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism.

This book introduces the theory of graded consequence (GCT) and its mathematical formulation.

The book seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to major logical results.

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996.

The Ways of Knowing (1925) examines the ways of attaining knowledge and verifying it, looking at the six methods of logic.

With this volume of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science edited by S.

The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con- ditional propositions and syllogisms.

Originally published in 1995 Time and Logic examines understanding and application of temporal logic, presented in computational terms.

In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions.

Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century.

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This edited book brings together research work in the field of constructive semantics with scholarship on the phenomenological foundations of logic and mathematics.

This book offers a novel perspective on abduction.

This volume brings together 12 essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant.

The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "e;Second Philosophy.

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking.

The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.

From Natura to Nature traces the career of the medieval goddess Natura Mother Nature as she influenced the literature of the High Middle Ages up to the time of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser.

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories.

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H.

More and more philosophers are using modal concepts to shed light on various philosophical problems and to analyse philosophical concepts.

Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines.

Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills?