Philosophy: logic

First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey.

Introduces classical logic, and its alternatives.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

This book presents Godel's incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics.

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?

This book provides readers with a guide to both ordinal analysis, and to proof theory.

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 volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity.

This research is the result of a fruitful connection and provides a sign- cant link between two topics of a logical and philosophical enquiry.

Michael R.

Originally published in 1982, this volume examines the sources of British Hegelian thinking, the lines of its development and intellectual relationships among members of the school.

One must be able to say at all times - in- stead of points, straight lines, and planes - tables, chairs and beer mugs.

Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.

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 studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg.

This edited volume focuses on the work of Professor Larisa Maksimova, providing a comprehensive account of her outstanding contributions to different branches of non-classical logic.

Paul Redding examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within analytic philosophy.

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts.

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one's thinking.

An investigation into the underlying logic of human languages which looks at how children acquire English and Mandarin.

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Originally published in 1980.

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This book presents a collection of contributions from related logics to applied paraconsistency.

Uncover the truth under all the BSIn the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty.

This book examines the progress to date in the many facets - conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics.

This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory.

Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs.

Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest a picture of the world as an assemblage of spectral resonances and disseminations.

This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches.

First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey.

This book explores a cluster of philosophical, historical, and logical problems concerning the foundations of the theory of plane area in elementary geometry.

Domain theory is a rich interdisciplinary area at the intersection of logic, computer science, and mathematics.

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When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.

Proof, Computation and Agency: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic and its relationship with other disciplines.

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

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism presents a remarkable diversity of contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics from a psychological perspective.

A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.

Reasoning about God is an introduction to philosophy of religion, meeting college students where they are with their own doubts and questions.

This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic.