Philosophy: logic

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.

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

What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been?

Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy.

It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed.

First published in 2001.

Unter den auf Reform und Vertiefung der Logik abzielenden Schriften nimmt Lotzes Werk einen der hervorragendsten Plätze ein.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of Whitehead and Russell's work on Volume 2 of the Principles of Mathematics to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905.

Thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going.

Originally published in 1988.

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This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years.

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

The Process of Argument: An Introduction is a necessary companion for anyone seeking to engage in successful persuasion: To organize, construct, and communicate arguments.

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Godel's modal ontological argument is the centrepiece of an extensive examination of intensional logic.

Critical thinking is taught at all universities, often put forward by lecturers as the key skill that can most dramatically improve a student's understanding of a course and transform their writing.

Originally published in 1985.

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

Elementary Logic explains what logic is, how it is done, and why it can be exciting.

This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of examples.

Computability and Logic is a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background.

In a fragment entitled Elementa Nova Matheseos Universalis (1683?

This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.

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 work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development.

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich.

This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and communications.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a workshop on formal seman- tics of natural languages which was held in Tiibingen from the 1st to the 3rd of December 1977.

The first comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction covering philosophy, history, cognition and mathematical practice.

An enlightening introduction to the study of logic: its history, philosophical foundations, and formal structures Logic: Inquiry, Argument, and Order is the first book of its kind to frame the study of introductory logic in terms of problems connected to wider issues of knowledge and judgment that arise in the context of racial, cultural, and religious diversity.

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem.

Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s.

Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic and The Laws of Thought.

The history of education is also the history of short-term solutions to deep-seated educational problems.

This book offers a concise introduction to both proof-theory and algebraic methods, the core of the syntactic and semantic study of logic respectively.

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework.

Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts.

This book is focused on the first three parts of Bolzano's Theory of Sciene and introduces a more systematic reconsideration of Bolzano's logial thought.

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of analytic philosophy.

In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.