Philosophy: logic

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity.

Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics.

The aim of the book is to show that the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, i.

The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy.

In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kant's Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kant's final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum.

Originally published in 1981.

This book examines an abstract mathematical theory, placing special emphasis on results applicable to formal logic.

An investigation into the underlying logic of human languages which looks at how children acquire English and Mandarin.

This book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view.

This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail.

This edited book focuses on non-classical logics and their applications, highlighting the rapid advances and the new perspectives that are emerging in this area.

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics.

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

In this first volume of The Sylvan Jungle, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, "e;Exploring Meinong's Jungle,"e; of Richard Routley's 1000-plus page book,  Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond.

Today's instantaneous and ever-present news stream frequently presents a sensationalized or otherwise distorted view of the world, demanding constant critical engagement on the part of everyday citizens.

The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (jadal) as a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal studies.

cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics.

This book addresses the hasty development of modern logic, especially its introducing and embracing various kinds of artificial languages and moving from the study of natural languages to that of artificial ones.

Originally published in 1991.

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

This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics.

An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.

Originally published in 1964.

Bertrand Russell's professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge.

Articulates and defends a novel theory of properties and propositions, based on Frege''s insight that properties are not objects.

An exposition of the approach to the algebraization of sentential logics developed by the Barcelona logic group.

Spanning the period between Wittgenstein's return to Cambridge in 1929 and the first version of Philosophical Investigations in 1936, Piotr Dehnel explores the middle stage in Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical development and identifies the major issues which engrossed him, including phenomenology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language.

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse.

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

The present work constitutes an effort to approach the subject of symbol- ic logic at the elementary to intermediate level in a novel way.

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

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl's work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics.

How were Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations read in Antiquity?

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell's views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic.

Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world.

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

This Element introduces the only decision theory that really treats human decisions as part of nature, not supernatural interventions.

Originally published in 1966 On the Syllogism and Other Logical Writings assembles for the first time the five celebrated memoirs of Augustus De Morgan on the syllogism.

Moral Inferences is the first volume to thoroughly explore the relationship between morality and reasoning.

Die Zeit der Vernunft ist ohne Zweifel eine der faszinierendsten Epochen philosophischer Weltdeutung.