Philosophy: logic

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

Originally published in 1949.

Originally published in 1967.

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.

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature of logic and the key issues and debates in the metaphysics of logic.

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

Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts.

Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future.

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend.

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 more traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science and technology continue as well, and probably will continue as long as there are skillful practitioners such as Carl Hempel, Ernest Nagel, and th~ir students.

Zwischen Logik und Literatur spannt sich ein Spektrum möglicher Erkenntnisformen, das an Beispielen abgeschritten wird.

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language.

Logik für Einsteiger.

An introductory textbook, Logic for Justice covers, in full detail, the language and semantics of both propositional logic and first-order logic.

First published in 1974.

This volume comprises a selection of contributions to the theorizing about argumentation that have been presented at the 9th conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), held in Amsterdam in July 2018.

Die Geschichte der Philosophie ist reich an großen Denkern – doch was ist mit den großen Denkerinnen?

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

Im Mittelpunkt jeder philosophischen Auseinandersetzung mit Sprache steht der Begriff der Repräsentation.