Philosophy: logic

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Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun- dred years.

This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became "e;the man who defined truth"e;.

Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen- tially independent of linguistic formulations, in the sense that, once the content of this knowledge has been grasped, there remains only the problem of professional ability, that of clearly formulating and correctly proving it.

A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory tries to solve fundamental normative moral, social, political, educational, legal, etc.

Representational systems such as language, mind and perhaps even the brain exhibit a structure that is often assumed to be compositional.

The Element provides a wide-ranging, but unified account of higher-order logic and contemporary type theory.

Are fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes real?

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

Although there is an abundance of highly specialized monographs, learned collections and general introductions to the philosophy of science, only a few 25 years.

To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N.

A deep dive into the historical and philosophical background of Gödel''s famed 1931 paper on incompleteness.

This book is about Gottlob Frege.

Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this century.

A self-contained guide to pure inductive logic, the study of rational probability treated as a branch of mathematical logic.

This edited volume brings together papers by both eminent and rising scholars to celebrate Saul Kripke's singular contributions to modal logic.

Originally published in 1993, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy looks at the idea of modality as multiplicity of reference with respect to alternative domains.

This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call "e;dynamic epistemology"e;.

Is logic a good tool for making decisions?

Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices normatively governed by inferential rules.

Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic-"e;logical expressivism"e;-according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive.

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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.

Originally published in 1966.

Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.

This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology.

The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.

This monograph presents a general theory of weakly implicative logics, a family covering a vast number of non-classical logics studied in the literature, concentrating mainly on the abstract study of the relationship between logics and their algebraic semantics.

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and Strawson.

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the Interna- tional Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR'98), held at the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in December 1998.

This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate.

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion.

The third in a series of four books presenting the seminal papers from the Caltech-UCLA ''Cabal Seminar''.

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

This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field.

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

A Logical Introduction to Probability and Induction is a textbook on the mathematics of the probability calculus and its applications in philosophy.

Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge reports recent results concerning the genuinely logical aspects of fuzzy sets in relation to algebraic considerations, knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning.

One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives.

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.