Philosophy: logic

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

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

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 is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers.

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1850) is increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth-century philosophers.

Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic.

Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

This is the first book focused on the logico-philosophical aspects of the lambda-calculus since the inception of the field in 1932 in the pioneering work of Alonzo Church.

In False Truths, Edward C.

This textbook offers a detailed introduction to the methodology and applications of sequent calculi in propositional logic.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

This book explores a cluster of philosophical, historical, and logical problems concerning the foundations of the theory of plane area in elementary geometry.

This 1998 book breathes new life into classical design arguments, showing how incomplete undirected causes are for science.

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account-a "e;constructive-engagement"e; account-of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible.

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

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.

These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world.

Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.

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A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning You ll love this book or you ll hate it.

Intuitionistic logic is presented here as part of familiar classical logic which allows mechanical extraction of programs from proofs.

Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

The volume analyses and develops David Makinson's efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas.

The first collection on the semantic conception of logic, covering its origin and applications in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics.

This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given.

The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering.

Lambda Calculi: A Guide Interpolation and Definability Discourse Representation Theory

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and Strawson.

In the `Preliminary Dissertation' of his Theodicy, Leibniz declares himself an apologist for the compatibilist doctrines of original sin, election and reprobation propounded by the theologians of the Augsburg Confession.

Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent.

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions--by drawing straws, tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on.

Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world.

The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is 'reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.

This book presents diverse topics in mathematical logic such as proof theory, meta-mathematics, and applications of logic to mathematical structures.

First published in 1952, professor Strawson's highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationship between the behaviour of words in common language and the behaviour of symbols in a logical system.

In this book the author charts the history and development of modern probability theory.

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

The field of modern logic is too extensive to be worked through by open- cast mining.

First Published in 1963, Logic and Criticism makes one of the rare attempts since that of I.