Philosophy: logic

Advocates a skeptical position of philosophy and discusses its practical applications in science, ethics, aesthetics, and politics.

Ernst Zermelo (1871-1953) is best-known for the statement of the axiom of choice and his axiomatization of set theory.

Christian Garves lateinische Hallesche Magisterschrift aus dem Jahr 1766 wird in diesem Band durch Kommentierung und Übersetzung erschlossen und in ihrer philosophiegeschichtlichen Bedeutung herausgestellt: als Beitrag zur damals aktuellen Diskussion über den erkenntnistheoretischen, logischen und lebenspraktischen Status des Wahrscheinlichen und als ein dezidierter Versuch des noch jungen "Popularphilosophen", sich von der akademischen Metaphysik abzusetzen.

This book investigates the historical development of Aristotle's perfect syllogism, or demonstration, into the Muslim world.

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.

This book focuses on the game-theoretical semantics and epistemic logic of Jaakko Hintikka.

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays.

Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of our time, startled the world of mathematics in 1931 with his Theorem of Undecidability, which showed that some statements in mathematics are inherently "e;undecidable.

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.

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

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences.

This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological perspective into the domains of rhetoric, communication, and philosophy.

Wittgenstein's philosophical career began in 1911 when he went to Cambridge to work with Russell.

John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language.

This skit of Bertrand Russell's philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell's correspondent friend Jourdain.

This volume shows Russell in transition from a neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosopher to an analytic philosopher of the first rank.

This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called 'world line semantics', which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics.

This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle's Organon.

Paradoxes provide a vehicle for exposing misinterpretations and misapplications of accepted principles.

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity.

In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics.

Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics sets out to fill up a lacuna in the present research on Husserl by presenting a precise account of Husserl's work in the field of logic, of the philosophy of logic and of the philosophy of mathematics.

Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation.

Jaakko Hintikka discusses the important problem of how knowledge is first acquired.

John Pollock aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real agents--not ideal agents.

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers, and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner.

This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians to address a diversity of topics on the structural analysis of non-classical logics.

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing.

This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors.

Time and Space in Formal Logic begins with an analysis of assumptions about how logic and language relate.

Arguing Well is a lucid introduction to the nature of good reasoning, how to test and construct successful arguments.

This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the basic techniques and results of neighborhood semantics for modal logic.

This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the 'golden trio'.

This important book by a major American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

This volume's aim is to provide an introduction to Carnap's book from a historical and philosophical perspective, each chapter focusing on one specific issue.