Philosophy: logic

Originally published in 1990.

This book develops a new approach to plural arbitrary reference and examines mereology, including considering four theses on the alleged innocence of mereology.

This book on proof theory centers around the legacy of Kurt Schutte and its current impact on the subject.

Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism.

In this text, a variety of modal logics at the sentential, first-order, and second-order levels are developed with clarity, precision and philosophical insight.

How should we think about the meaning of the words that make up our language?

The present book discusses all aspects of paraconsistent logic, including the latest findings, and its various systems.

A systematic introduction suitable for readers who have little familiarity with logic.

In By Parallel Reasoning Paul Bartha proposes a normative theory of analogical arguments and raises questions and proposes answers regarding (i.

Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline.

This book showcases Ian Hacking''s early ideas on the philosophical issues surrounding statistical reasoning.

This book presents an interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism.

This volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century.

The present monograph is a slightly revised version of my Habilitations- schrift Proof-theoretic Aspects of Intensional and Non-Classical Logics, successfully defended at Leipzig University, November 1997.

Art as Language systematically considers the implications of the pervasive belief that art is a language or functions like language.

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel's entire logic of being.

This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition.

This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan's work on self-reference.

Dreihundert Jahre nach Leibniz' Tod ist sein Denken so aktuell wie eh und je.

Now in its fourth edition, this book on logic has been enhanced and rewritten.

This book focuses on logic and logical language.

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications.

Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy.

This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false.

The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic.

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.

Since its birth, Model Theory has been developing a number of methods and concepts that have their intrinsic relevance, but also provide fruitful and notable applications in various fields of Mathematics.

The essays in this collection explore free logic, an important field of philosophical logic that first appeared in the 1950s.

The essays in this volume present a sustained case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics.

This book presents an English translation of a classic Russian text on duality theoryfor Heyting algebras.

For a North American seeking to know the Mexican mind, and especially the sciences today and in their recent development, a great light of genius is to be found in Mexico City in the late 17th century.

The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself.

Mathematics has stood as a bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences since the days of classical antiquity.

The Continuum Companion to Philosophical Logic offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

The British philosopher Stephan Toulmin, in his The Uses of Argument, made the provocative claim that "e;logic is generalized jurisprudence"e;.

What is mathematics about?

This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical knowledge.

This book navigates global educational policy concerning critical thinking skills and competencies.

The Snake and the Fox is a highly imaginative and fun way to learn logic.

This volume tells the story of the legacy and impact of the great German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716).

Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

This book provides an overview of the confluence of ideas in Turing's era and work and examines the impact of his work on mathematical logic and theoretical computer science.

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.

This accessible book provides a practical discussion of the main elements of argumentation as illustrated by 30 public arguments from a recent year on a wide variety of social, cultural, and scientific topics.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

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