Philosophy: logic

The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century.

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

This book is a collection of contributions honouring Arnon Avron's seminal work on the semantics and proof theory of non-classical logics.

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the history of a great tradition, the Lvov-Warsaw School of logic and mathematics, by the best specialists from all over the world.

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

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

This volume is a result of the international symposium "e;The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,"e; which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015.

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the theory of opposition (square, hexagon, octagon, polyhedra of opposition) by the best specialists from all over the world.

This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history.

This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities.

This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos' work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2021, Virtual Event, in October 2021.

This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity.

This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

This book is a tribute to Professor Ewa Orlowska, a Polish logician who was celebrating the 60th year of her scientific career in 2017.

This book contains more than 15 essays that explore issues in truth, existence, and explanation.

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of analytic philosophy.

This book offers a comprehensive critical survey of issues of historical interpretation and evaluation in Bertrand Russell's 1918 logical atomism lectures and logical atomism itself.

This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic.

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.

The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare's rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.

This is a reading of Gilles Deleuze's masterpiece Logic of Sense.

This collection of articles is unique in the way it approaches established material on the various logical traditions in India.

Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics sets out to fill up a lacuna in the present research on Husserl by presenting a precise account of Husserl's work in the field of logic, of the philosophy of logic and of the philosophy of mathematics.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric.

This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians, mainly from Asia, to address a variety of logical and philosophical topics of current interest, offering a representative cross-section of the philosophical logic landscape in early 21st-century Asia.

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement?

The Genesis of Logic addresses the principles of common-sense reasoning, which are employed in everyday decision-making processes and extend beyond deductive reasoning alone.

This book presents the research achievements of Jin Yuelin, the first logician and a prominent philosopher in China, who founded a new philosophical system combining elements from Western and Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the concept of Tao.

This volume collects selected papers presented at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation in 2018 held in Hangzhou, China.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DaLi 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in July/August 2022.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences.

'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth century.

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

This contributed volume collects papers related to the Logic in Question workshop, which has taken place annually at Sorbonne University in Paris since 2011.

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic.

Truth is one of the oldest and most central topics in philosophy.

Western civilization is over.

Western civilization is over.

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers.

A new reading of Hegel's Science of Logic through the history of European mathematics.

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers.

In diesem Büchlein geht es darum, Mitmenschen, die in große seelische oder auch körperliche Not geraten sind, eine Perspektive aufzuzeigen, mittels derer sie diese Not in eine große Hoffnung auf ein von unbeschreiblicher Freude erfülltes Leben verwandeln können.

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods.

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods.

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices.

An introductory textbook, Logic for Justice covers, in full detail, the language and semantics of both propositional logic and first-order logic.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna.