Philosophy: logic

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This book is a collection of essays that offer original logical and philosophical investigations into the century-long endeavor to understand paradoxes.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

This accessible book provides a practical discussion of the main elements of argumentation as illustrated by 30 public arguments from a recent year on a wide variety of social, cultural, and scientific topics.

This collection of articles is unique in the way it approaches established material on the various logical traditions in India.

This volume, the 6th volume in the DRUMS Handbook series, is part of the after- math of the successful ESPRIT project DRUMS (Defeasible Reasoning and Un- certainty Management Systems) which took place in two stages from 1989-1996.

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law.

What does 'if' mean?

This book explains how the logic of theory change employs formal models in the investigation of changes in belief states and databases.

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle's logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light.

Constructs an account of the basic principles for moving towards just institutions and virtuous lives.

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "e;unified science"e; by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences.

First published in 1972, Philosophical Tasks was written to identify and examine some central themes in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

conceptual, realist) theories of predication.

This book explores the relationship between Hegel's dialectics and formal logic.

John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic.

You've Got to Be Kidding!

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language.

One can distinguish, roughly speaking, two different approaches to the philosophy of mathematics.

Since all human thoughts are controlled by the mind, understanding our thoughts is essential to personal and societal advancement.

Wittgenstein's role was vital in establishing mathematics as one of this century's principal areas of philosophic inquiry.

For Plato, philosophy depends on, or is perhaps even identical with, dialectic.

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).

This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review.

This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

Experiential Realism (1973) is the outline of a new philosophical system.

Can OUGHT be derived from IS?

Originally published in 1937.

First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant.

Using both Father Kevin Wall's eidetic matrix of "e;the relational unity of being"e; and Edith Stein's remarkable synoptic view of intentionality in both Aquinas and Husserl, this book uncovers purely logical ground for a subalternate eidetic science called "e;convergent phenomenology,"e; itself located at the inmost depths of Husserlian phenomenology.

In the last century developments in mathematics, philosophy, physics, computer science, economics and linguistics have proven important for the development of logic.

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

A selective, critical history of the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years.

In general, a given object could have been different in certain respects.

Lotzes Logik gilt als einer der folgenreichsten philosophischen Texte im Übergang vom 19.

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.

This book approaches the topic of argumentation from the perspective of audiences, rather than the perspective of arguers or arguments.

Peirce (1839–1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher.

Logical methods are used in all area of philosophy.

Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape.

The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to formal constructions.

This book provides “brief lives” and thoughts of some leading candidates for the term secular saint.

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly.

This book bridges the gaps between logic, mathematics and computer science by delving into the theory of well-quasi orders, also known as wqos.

Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people.