Philosophy: logic

The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics.

Papers in the collection concentrate on different issues relevant for contemporary research within semantics, such as the linguistic and philosophical status of representations, reference theory and indexicals, situation semantics, formal semantics, normativity of meaning and speech acts, and different approaches to context and contextualism.

Logic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large.

The papers in this volume present some of the most recent results of the work about contradictions in philosophical logic and metaphysics; examine the history of contradiction in crucial phases of philosophical thought; consider the relevance of contradictions for political and philosophical actuality.

A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances.

Structure or system is a ubiquitous and uneliminable feature of all our experience and theory, and requires an ontological analysis.

The second volume is devoted to issues of compositionality that arouse in the sciences of language, the investigation of the mind, and the modeling of representational brain functions.

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy.

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy.

There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead?

Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead.

Alexander Pfander's classical phenomenological logic, a masterwork of unmatched clarity, is presented here for the first time in English.

The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology.

The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking.

The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth.

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays.

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned philosophers in the analytic tradition today.

This book aims to develop a philosophical theory of extrinsic properties - of properties whose instantiation by an object does not only depend on what the object itself is like, but also on features of its environment.

Church's Thesis (CT) was first published by Alonzo Church in 1935.

On the occasion of the retirement of Wolfram Pohlers the Institut fur Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung of the University of Munster organized a colloquium and a workshop which took place July 17 - 19, 2008.

The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology.

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic.

To what extent can we doubt certainties?

The Orthodox Christian thought is the most modally rigorous way of inferring.

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

The problem of truth and the liar paradox is one of the most extensive problems of philosophy.

In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice - by a process of mutual assessments - with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective.

The book aims at a comprehensive account of the relationship between Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Russell's philosophy as it developed between 1903 and 1918.

Conditional structures lie at the heart of the sciences, humanities, and everyday reasoning.

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

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Follesdal, the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Follesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact.

Logik ist nach dem traditionellen Verständnis eine ars iudicandi, eine Kunst, die Gültigkeit von Schlüssen zu prüfen.

Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic.

The book seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to major logical results.

Knocking on Heaven's Door is the oldest human dream that seems unrealized still.