Philosophy: logic

A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises.

2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them.

This volume is a result of the international symposium "e;The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,"e; which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015.

You've Got to Be Kidding!

Time is a fascinating subject and has long since captured mankind's imagination, from the ancients to modern man, both adult and child alike.

JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer- sity of Jerusalem.

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege.

Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself.

This book aids in the rehabilitation of the wrongfully deprecated work of William Parry, and is the only full-length investigation into Parry-type propositional logics.

Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline.

This is a comprehensive study of the English word or, and the logical operators variously proposed to present its meaning.

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism.

The book offers new insights into the lottery paradox, and thereby into how categorical and graded beliefs are formally connected.

John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy.

This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas.

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Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel's entire logic of being.

This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have been neglected by the official history of modern logic.

We all engage in the process of reasoning, but we don't always pay attention to whether we are doing it well.

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This volume gathers selected papers presented at the Fourth Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, held in Beijing in October 2018.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning about necessity and possibility.

Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors.

Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature and role of hypothetical reasoning about impossibilities.

Logic has acquired a reputation for difficulty, perhaps because many of the approaches adopted have been more suitable for mathematicians than computer scientists.

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

This book is a selection from the articles that I have written over a period of more than twenty years.

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse.

The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century.

Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion.

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Gottingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker.

This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective.

Proof theory and category theory were first drawn together by Lambek some 30 years ago but, until now, the most fundamental notions of category theory (as opposed to their embodiments in logic) have not been explained systematically in terms of proof theory.

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.

This volume examines the implications of Heidegger''s thinking for logic and for speaking logically of being in contrast to beings.

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences.

Diagrams are essential in most fields of human activity.

This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S.

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.

This volume aims to provide the elements for a systematic exploration of certain fundamental notions of Peirce and Husserl in respect with foundations of science by means of drawing a parallelism between their works.

Proofs and Refutations is for those interested in the methodology, philosophy and history of mathematics.

Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.