Philosophy: logic

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

the demise of the logical positivism programme.

In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Ramsey.

Preface This book is about semantics and logic.

'You shouldn't drink too much.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices.

The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.

This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought-his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "e;father of modern science.

Standard STEM courses, for all of their value, do not tend to include systematic lectures or treatment about the nature of the scientific method.

The Concept of Holiness (1961) examines one of the most distinctively religious concepts in the sphere of Hebrew and Christian belief.

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers.

Nach seinem dialogischen Kommentar zu Hegels »Phänomenologie des Geistes« rekonstruiert Pirmin Stekeler jetzt die »Wissenschaft der Logik« als Überbietung von Kants »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«.

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation.

This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

The first edition, published by Acumen in 2000, became a prescribed textbook on modal logic courses.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.

Ever struggled to write a critical essay?

We are happy to present to the reader the first book of our Applied Logic Series.

The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy.

Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts-the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts.

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more.

Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century.

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Welche Aussagen konstruktivistischer Theorieangebote eignen sich eigentlich dafür, Lehren und Lernen in Bezug auf das weite Feld der Religion zu beschreiben?

First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing.

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant.

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings.

Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

Summarizing, in The Uses of Argument Toulmin emphasized a number of points that are by now familiar, but still deserve attention: 1.

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

"e;Necessity is the mother of invention.

This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995.

When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of and interest in my pursuits.

InSeptember2000theArcheCentrelauncheda ve-yearresearchprojecten- tled the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics.

We are happy to present the second volume of the Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems.

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007-8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures?

This is the first comprehensive treatment of subjective logic and all its operations.

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This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

This long-awaited book replaces Hughes and Cresswell's two classic studies of modal logic: An Introduction to Modal Logic and A Companion to Modal Logic.

This book offers a collection of papers on focal themes in truth research, including minimalism, pragmatism and pluralism, and philosophical logic.

Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of Whitehead and Russell's work on Volume 2 of the Principles of Mathematics to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905.