Philosophy: logic

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents.

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

This book is dedicated to V.

This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schroder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C.

This monograph shows that, through a recourse to the concepts and methods of abstract algebraic logic, the algebraic theory of regular varieties and the concept of analyticity in formal logic can profitably interact.

The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries.

This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field.

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning.

This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities.

This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes.

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents.

The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science.

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.

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2021, Virtual Event, in October 2021.

This LNCS book is part of the FOLLI book series and constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, LORI 2021, held in Xi`an, China, in October 2021.

This book offers the first-ever English translation of Oskar Becker's Zur Logik der Modalitaten.

Paris of the year 1900 left two landmarks: the Tour Eiffel, and David Hilbert's celebrated list of twenty-four mathematical problems presented at a conference opening the new century.

This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and communications.

This book is a treatise on Aristotelian assertoric syllogistic, which is currently of growing interest.

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field.

This monograph presents a general theory of weakly implicative logics, a family covering a vast number of non-classical logics studied in the literature, concentrating mainly on the abstract study of the relationship between logics and their algebraic semantics.

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett.

This book revisits the definition of polemical discourse and deals with its functions in the democratic sphere.

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

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.

Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management,  this book has one principal aim.

This volume is dedicated to Hiroakira Ono life's work on substructural logics.

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

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics.

This book is dedicated to the work of Alasdair Urquhart.

This book is a collection of contributions honouring Arnon Avron's seminal work on the semantics and proof theory of non-classical logics.

This book creates a conceptual schema that acts as a correlation between Epistemology and Epistemic Logic.

This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity.

This book intends to unite studies in different fields related to the development of the relations between logic, law and legal reasoning.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential elements of standard (classical) symbolic logic.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

This book is dedicated to the life and work of the mathematician Joachim Lambek (1922-2014).

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

This book features more than 20 papers that celebrate the work of Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti.

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history.

This third volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood).

This textbook offers a detailed introduction to the methodology and applications of sequent calculi in propositional logic.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir.

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics.

Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation.