Philosophy: logic

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes.

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management,  this book has one principal aim.

The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning introduces healthcare students and professionals to the foundations of critical thinking and offers examples of applications within clinical fields.

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.

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things.

Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1896-1945.

Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information.

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.

A lucid and comprehensive introduction to one of Berkeley''s major works which mirrors the structure of that work.

Of all the major philosophical works, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding, yet one of the most difficult.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

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

Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge change.

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple.

Vague words, like "e;tall,"e; "e;rich,"e; and "e;old,"e; lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

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

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking.

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

Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on.

Logic has acquired a reputation for difficulty, perhaps because many of the approaches adopted have been more suitable for mathematicians than computer scientists.

The present work is a fair record of work I've done on the fallacies and related matters in the fifteen years since 1986.

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

Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones.

This book presents a detailed treatment of ordinal combinatorics of large sets tailored for independence results.

The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J.

To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past.

Originally published in 1976.

First published in 1985, Principles of Language and Mind presents a systematic and original account of the principles which enable us to understand the origin, primary functions, and later development of human language.

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.

Realizing Reason pursues three interrelated themes.

When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed.

This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse.

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 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.

This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning.

This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors.

Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age.

Originally published in 1991, this volume examines Hegel's political philosophy from the perspective of his argument for constitutional monarchy.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event.

The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy.

We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and by the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God.

This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web.