Philosophy: logic

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the of the 29th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, WoLLIC 2023, held in Halifax, NS, Canada, during July 11-14, 2023.

This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic.

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework.

This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre.

Moral Inferences is the first volume to thoroughly explore the relationship between morality and reasoning.

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics.

First published in 1998, Loughlin examines the conception of rationality through the gazes of science, philosophy and political philosophy to further explain the concept of rational reasoning, the effects it has on the development on natural and social science and its implications on how we think about morals and politics.

Drawing a line, and then another, and another.

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the medieval and early modern periods in the fields of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory.

In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory.

What does 'if' mean?

First published in 1961, Inductive Probability is a dialectical analysis of probability as it occurs in inductions.

How were Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations read in Antiquity?

Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation.

Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent.

PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation.

This book is dedicated to Dick de Jongh's contributions to the theory of intuitionistic and provability logics.

Learn how computational logic, as developed in artificial intelligence, can be applied to everyday situations.

The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics.

This book offers a clear, analytic, and innovative interpretation of Heidegger's late work.

This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others.

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality - these are the main topics in the work of John R.

Fuzzy logic in narrow sense is a promising new chapter of formal logic whose basic ideas were formulated by Lotfi Zadeh (see Zadeh [1975]a).

Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy.

This book presents Godel's incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics.

Within traditional decision theory, common decision principles -- e.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smirnov was born on March 2, 1931.

A basic introduction to the subject which addresses questions of truth and meaning, providing a basis for much of what is discussed elsewhere in philosophy.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2022, Iasi, Romania, in September 2022.

This essay contains material which will hopefully be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to those social scientists whose research concerns the analysis of communication, verbal or non-verbal.

This book examines the effects of the pattern of growing integration between the rural and urban economies in India.

Uncover the truth under all the BSIn the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty.

The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries.

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language.

This book reports the recent results obtained by Italian researchers in fuzzy logic.

This book provides a practical argumentation model for intelligent means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making.

This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their seeming diversity.

While we are commonly told that the distinctive method of mathematics is rigorous proof, and that the special topic of mathematics is abstract structure, there has been no agreement among mathematicians, logicians, or philosophers as to just what either of these assertions means.

Logik für Einsteiger.

The third in a series of four books presenting the seminal papers from the Caltech-UCLA ''Cabal Seminar''.

This volume presents a number of systems of logic which can be considered as alternatives to classical logic.

This LNCS book is part of the FOLLI book series and constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, LORI 2023, held in Jinan, China, in October 2023.