Philosophy: logic

First comprehensive collection of Feyerabend''s philosophy of quantum physics, the hotbed of all key issues of his most debated ideas.

Our ability to think, argue and reason is determined by our ability to question.

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic.

Probability: A Philosophical Introduction introduces and explains the principal concepts and applications of probability.

In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Solomon Feferman explains advanced results in modern logic and employs them to cast light on significant problems in the foundations of mathematics.

First full English translation of the Portuguese-language works of W.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse.

This anthology of original essays has been nearly .

During Edmund Husserl's lifetime, modern logic and mathematics rapidly developed toward their current outlook and Husserl's writings can be fruitfully compared and contrasted with both 19th century figures (Boole, Schroder, Weierstrass) as well as the 20th century characters (Heyting, Zermelo, Godel).

This book is a historical investigation of the leading philosophical movement in England in the twentieth century.

Edmund Husserl hat einmal die Wissenschaftslehre ein Werk genannt, "das in Sachen der logischen 'Elementarlehre' alles weit zurückläßt, was die Weltliteratur an systematischen Entwürfen der Logik darbietet".

This Festschrift includes papers presented to honour Solomon Feferman on his seventieth birthday, reflecting his broad interests and his approach to foundational research.

Logic Works is a critical and extensive introduction to logic.

The A to Z of Logic introduces the central concepts of the field in a series of brief, non-technical, cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on.

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "e;resolute"e; reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein.

Originally published in 1985.

This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction.

Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective objects, concepts or states of affairs they are supposed to represent, and by the internal structure of the content they articulate.

Are there objects that are "e;thin"e; in the sense that not very much is required for their existence?

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.

Haack''s book has established an international reputation for its clarity, thorough scholarship and careful analyses.

Perfect for students with no background in logic or philosophy, Simple Formal Logic provides a full system of logic adequate to handle everyday and philosophical reasoning.

Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we hold certain views even as others who are basically like us hold very different ones.

Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy.

In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers.

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference.

The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries.

Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy.

This is the first book to systematically study the weak systems of mereology.

This book covers a broad range of up-to-date issues in non-classical logic that are of interest not only to philosophical and mathematical logicians but also to computer scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence.

First full English translation of the Portuguese-language works of W.

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The first comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction covering philosophy, history, cognition and mathematical practice.

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.

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This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

First published in 1943, and revised for this 1952 edition, this book was intended for use by students of philosophy and as such traditional and modern developments in logic have been combined in a unified treatment.

The present collection of papers derives from a philosophy conference organised in the Sicilian town of M ussomeli in September 1991.

This book contains 20 essays tracing the work of David Zarefsky, a leading North American scholar of argumentation from a rhetorical perspective.

The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science.

Kant hielt seit 1765 regelmäßig Vorlesungen über Logik, denen er ein Exemplar des »Meierschen Lehrbuchs« von 1752 als Leitfaden zugrunde legte, in welches er fortschreitend Anmerkungen und Erläuterungen eintrug, denen er in seinem Vortrag folgte.

We are happy to present the first volume of the Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems.

This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work.