Philosophy: logic

At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi- cation of a transition to something new, in order to be critically open for all attempts at "e;another beginning.

The need for another study on the doctrine of analogy in the writings ofSt Thomas may not be obvious, since a complete bibliography in this area would doubtless assume depressing proportions.

With this issue we initiate the policy of expanding the scope of Tulane Studies in Philosophy to include, in addition to the work of members of the department, contributions from philosophers who have earned advanced degrees from Tulane and who are now teaching in other colleges and universities.

It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems.

The aim of this monograph is to expound the conceptions of temporalized modality at issue in various Arabic logical texts.

The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con- ditional propositions and syllogisms.

This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con- gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences.

Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "e;never from the begin- ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and studies oflogic flourished more abun- dantly than the period-in which we live.

Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-Ianguage hand- books of logie and numerous monographs on topieal discoveries in the foundations of mathematies.

Everyone knows it is easy to lie with statistics.

During the last half century there has been revolutionary progress in logic and in logic-related areas such as linguistics.

Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-language hand- books of logic and numerous monographs on topical discoveries in the foundations of mathematics.

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.

This book is addressed primarily to researchers specializing in mathemat- ical logic.

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists.

The papers collected in this volume were written over a period of some eight or nine years, with some still earlier material incorporated in one of them.

It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition.

This book is intended to serve as an advanced text and reference work on modal logic, a subject of growing importance which has applications to philosophy and linguistics.

Wittgenstein's remarks on mathematics have not received the recogni- tion they deserve; they have for the most part been either ignored, or dismissed as unworthy of the author of the Tractatus and the I nvestiga- tions.

This book is intended to be a survey of the most important results in mathematical logic for philosophers.

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.

These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world.

These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world.

2 called in question, then naturally no fact, science, could be presupposed.

Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such.

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds.

Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s.

This is a collection of invited papers from the 1975 International Sym- posium on Multiple-valued Logic.

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.

Domain theory is a rich interdisciplinary area at the intersection of logic, computer science, and mathematics.

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality - these are the main topics in the work of John R.

This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics.

Information technology has been, in recent years, under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices and systems which help/ replace the human in his daily activity.

Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy.

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it.

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.

As society comes to rely increasingly on software for its welfare and prosperity there is an urgent need to create systems in which it can trust.

Godel's modal ontological argument is the centrepiece of an extensive examination of intensional logic.

Quantum theory is the most successful of all physical theories: it has a towering mathematical structure, a vast range of accurate predictions, and technological applications.

Der vorliegende Band enthält den Text der dreistündigen Vorlesung, die Husserl unter dem Titel `Logik' in Göttingen im Wintersemester 1902/03 gehalten hat.

Im vorliegenden Band wird der Text von Husserls Göttinger Vorlesung `Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie' vom Winter 1902/03 veröffentlicht, in der er erstmals eine phänomenologische Erkenntnistheorie zu entwerfen suchte.