Philosophy: logic

Philosophy involves a criticism of scientific knowledge, not from a point of view ultimately different from that of science, but from a point of view less concerned with details and more concerned with the h- mony of the body of special sciences.

This book extends Bayesian epistemology to develop new approaches to general rational learning within the framework of probability theory.

Der mallorquinische Philosoph Raimundus Lullus (um 1235–1315) versuchte durch eine Kombinatorik der obersten allgemeinen Begriffe alle übrigen Wahrheiten abzuleiten und in ihrem Zusammenhang anschaulich darzustellen.

This is the first volume of a collection of papers in honor of the fiftieth birthday of Jean-Yves Beziau.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.

The work of which this is an English translation appeared originally in French as Precis de logique mathematique.

This text examines the many transformations in Husserl's phenomenology that his discoveries of the nature of appearing lead to.

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental features of the old syllogistic.

The second edition of an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

This bookgathers the proceedings of the conference "e;Cultures of Mathematics andLogic,"e; held in Guangzhou, China.

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

On the history of the book: In the early 1990s several new methods and perspectives in au- mated deduction emerged.

Originally published in 1966.

This work represents an attempt to show that standard systems of deontic logic (taken as attempts to codify normal deontic reasoning) run into a number of difficulties.

This second volume of a collection of papers offers new perspectives and challenges in the study of logic.

This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life.

This volume is a state-of-the-art survey of the psychology of reasoning, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field's most eminent figures: Jonathan St B.

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.

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning.

Burgess''s essays address key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation.

This book shows how logical empiricism epitomized analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.

This book is dedicated to the work of Alasdair Urquhart.

In From Metaphysics to Decision Making, Alexander Mitjashin argues that the laws of logic should be regarded as a paraphrase of an ontology an understanding of being whose components are distinct one from another, no matter how similar we may consider them.

Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy.

This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic.

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

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive theory of premise acceptability.

To what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real?

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An original interpretation of a key concept of Hegel''s philosophy with implications for the correct understanding of his entire legacy

Aristotle's Organon in Old and New Logic 1800 1950 explores the reception and interpretation of Aristotle's logic over the last two centuries.

Presents a new way of applying the methods of proof theory to axiomatic theories and systems of philosophical logic.

In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci).

This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term 'susbstructural'.

The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme provides a historical-logical analysis of Aristotle's rhetorical syllogism, the enthymeme, through its Medieval and Renaissance interpretations.

Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.

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This book is a collection of contributions honouring Arnon Avron's seminal work on the semantics and proof theory of non-classical logics.

Fitting and Mendelsohn present a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic, together with some propositional background.

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field.