Philosophy: logic

This book shows how logical empiricism epitomized analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.

Peirce (1839–1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

This book shows how logical empiricism epitomized analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.

Examines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science.

Examines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science.

This book provides an accessible and at the same time scientifically rigorous introduction to the principles of logical reasoning.

An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.

An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.

These essays apply the core conceptual innovation underlying Frege''s theory of number to the general analysis of theoretical knowledge.

Presents a new approach to causal inference and explanation, addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships.

These essays apply the core conceptual innovation underlying Frege''s theory of number to the general analysis of theoretical knowledge.

Presents a new approach to causal inference and explanation, addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships.

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

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

A fascinating journey through intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory - a lively introduction to this contemporary topic.

A fascinating journey through intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory - a lively introduction to this contemporary topic.

The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.

This book presents logic as a way to identify all information processes that drive human action.

Presents a new way of applying the methods of proof theory to axiomatic theories and systems of philosophical logic.

John Mikhail explores whether moral psychology is usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar.

John Mikhail explores whether moral psychology is usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar.

Learn how computational logic, as developed in artificial intelligence, can be applied to everyday situations.

Learn how computational logic, as developed in artificial intelligence, can be applied to everyday situations.

A systematic introduction suitable for readers who have little familiarity with logic.

This volume commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel by exploring the impact of his work and its future implications.

This volume commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel by exploring the impact of his work and its future implications.

This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: "e;What is the Matrix?

Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions.

The subject of this book is the relationship and the difference between the temporal everlasting and the atemporal eternal.

While Wilfrid Sellars' philosophy is often depicted in an ahistorical fashion, this book explores the consequences of placing his work in its historical context.

The 'death' of German Idealism has been decriedinnumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-centurycritique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy,or analytic philosophy.

This book offers an array of important perspectives on Kant and nonconceptualism from some of the leading scholars in current Kant studies.

This text examines the boundary between logic and philosophy in Kant and Hegel.

This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes.

Extended Rationality provides a novel account of the structure of epistemic justification.

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

Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is.

This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit.

To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N.

An investigatation of the influence of psychology and early phenomenology on the origins of analytic philosophy.

Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding.

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche revive an ancient approach to ethics that evaluates different ways of life considered as a whole.

This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he devised to facilitate analyses in mathematics

What is mathematics about?

This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.

Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.

In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content.