Philosophy: logic

hiS volume in the Synthese Library Series is the result of a conference T held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, October 31st-November 1st, 1997.

A new approach to Kant''s conception of virtue which grounds it in his innovative account of reflection and cognitive agency.

This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject.

Sixty years after its first edition, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of Wittgenstein's second book project.

Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired.

This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2020: the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

When asked in 1962 on what he was working Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz replied: Several years ago Polish Scientific Publishers suggested that I pre- pare a new edition of The Logical Foundations of Teaching, which I wrote 1 before 1939 as a contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Education.

Methods and Skills for Philosophy introduces students to methodologies, strategies, heuristics and formal tools which are typically employed in contemporary analytic philosophy.

It is neither far-fetched nor over-modest to assume that some readers will feel that another book on philosophical analysis is superfluous, seeing that there are at present a number of fine books, essays or col- lections of essays on the subject.

This volume of the Argumentation Library contains a collection of twenty-six theor- etical contributions to the study of argumentation.

It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook.

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

Originally published in 1984, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1945-1970.

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory.

When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.

A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law.

This volume aims to provide the elements for a systematic exploration of certain fundamental notions of Peirce and Husserl in respect with foundations of science by means of drawing a parallelism between their works.

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.

Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.

This book clearly introduces the major topics in logic and their relation to current philosophical issues.

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War.

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science.

This volume brings together 12 essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant.

This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise?

How do we think?

Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of.

Reasoning about God is an introduction to philosophy of religion, meeting college students where they are with their own doubts and questions.

The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author's work over decades.

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

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

The content of the volume is divided as follows: after presenting two rival approaches to substantiality and causality: a traditional (ontological) view vs.

Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga.

Dieses Werk ist der Gattung nach eine Summa totius logicae, ein Handbuch der gesamten Logik, das in erster Fassung Anfang der 1350er Jahre in Paris entstand und in zweiter Fassung 1360 ebenda.

Die »Schriften zur Syllogistik« schließen eine große, entscheidende Lücke in den Ausgaben der (bis 1903 verschollenen) logischen Manuskripte von Leibniz, denn auch der Bearbeitungsstand der sog.

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 argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning.

New Texts in the History of PhilosophyPublished in association with the British Society for the History of PhilosophyThe aim of this series is to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of the history of philosophy, including the rediscovery of neglected elements and the exploration of new approaches to the subject.

The approach to probability theory followed in this book (which differs radically from the usual one, based on a measure-theoretic framework) characterizes probability as a linear operator rather than as a measure, and is based on the concept of coherence, which can be framed in the most general view of conditional probability.

Originally published in 1931.

This volume comprises a selection of contributions to the theorizing about argumentation that have been presented at the 9th conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), held in Amsterdam in July 2018.

In everyday life we normally express our beliefs in all-or-nothing terms: I believe it is going to rain; I don't believe that my lottery ticket will win.

Today, scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education.

This book is a study in the logic of questions (sometimes called erotetic logic).

How strongly should you believe the various propositions that you can express?

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

First published in 1998, Taking on Wittgensteinianism themes, but also using, or relying on several mathematical results, Slater in this book explores the idea of realism and further argues how in a philosophical viewpoint is incorrect.