Philosophy: logic

A concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments: as well as to the philosophical mainstays of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical analysis.

At some juncture in most people's lives, they will question their existence with varying degrees of intensity, such as, 'Who am I?

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many clearly explained legal and non-legal examples.

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many clearly explained legal and non-legal examples.

This book is a complete and authoritative English rendition of the last work of the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.

This book is a complete and authoritative English rendition of the last work of the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.

This book presents an introduction to and original reading of Thucydides'' understanding of practical politics.

This book presents an introduction to and original reading of Thucydides'' understanding of practical politics.

New translation of the first major work of the greatest English political philosopher.

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

This volume explores the range of Montaigne''s philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.

A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.

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 Companion introduces Max Weber, one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences.

Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.

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

Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.

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

The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

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

This Companion introduces Max Weber, one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences.

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

New translation of the first major work of the greatest English political philosopher.

This volume offers translations of significant political writings of Seneca, the most important Stoic philosopher.

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.

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective.

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.

The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy.