Philosophy: logic

The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality.

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.

This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought-his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "e;father of modern science.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

This volume contains contributions to the "e;systematic study of knowledge.