Philosophy: logic

Relevance logics came of age with the one and only International Conference on relevant logics in 1974.

This work is divided into two parts.

The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E.

The essays in this collection are written by students, colleagues, and friends of Nuel Belnap to honor him on his sixtieth birthday.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data- processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) ani- mal, or machine.

This book grew out of my confusion.

- Donation refusal is high in all the regions of Argentina.

Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification is neither eliminable, substitutional, nor referential.

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.

This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness.

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

This collection of papers, celebrating the contributions of Swedish logician Dag Prawitz to Proof Theory, has been assembled from those presented at the Natural Deduction conference organized in Rio de Janeiro to honour his  seminal  research.

This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics.

This volume describes and analyzes in a systematic way the great contributions of the philosopher Krister Segerberg to the study of real and doxastic actions.

This second edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic reflects great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since the first edition.

Written by experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematical practice.

This volume examines the limitations of mathematical logic and proposes a new approach to logic intended to overcome them.

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse.

Paradoxes provide a vehicle for exposing misinterpretations and misapplications of accepted principles.

This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review.

This new volume on logic follows a recognizable format that deals in turn with the topics of mathematical logic, moving from concepts, via definitions and inferences, to theories and axioms.

Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival.

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement?

The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses.

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences.

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

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language.

This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics.

A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises.

Is reality logical and is logic real?

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Intuitionistic type theory can be described, somewhat boldly, as a partial fulfillment of the dream of a universal language for science.

This book, provides a critical approach to all major logical paradoxes: from ancient to contemporary ones.

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories.

Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines.

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'.

Science is a dynamic process in which the assimilation of new phenomena, perspectives, and hypotheses into the scientific corpus takes place slowly.

The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s.

This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory.

This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers.

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

Der vorliegende Band enthält den Text der vierstündigen Vorlesung, die Husserl im Wintersemester 1908/09 unter dem Titel "Alte und neue Logik" in Göttingen gehalten hat.

This book is dedicated to Dick de Jongh's contributions to the theory of intuitionistic and provability logics.

The book presents a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values understood as subsets of some established set of (basic) truth values.

Legal statements are, according to the authors, the most basic elements of the law.

The mid-1980s saw the discovery of logical tools that make it possible to model changes in belief and knowledge in entirely new ways.

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.

Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics.