Philosophy: logic

Explores how we justify our beliefs - and try to influence those of others - both soundly and effectively.

Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

The author revisits logicism in light of recent advances in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

This volume examines the inexhaustibility of mathematical knowledge by presenting a particular view of the topic of Gödelian extensions of theories.

A new approach to Kant''s conception of virtue which grounds it in his innovative account of reflection and cognitive agency.

This volume will launch a discussion about the concept of intensionality in philosophy, logic, linguistics and mathematics.

Explores how we justify our beliefs - and try to influence those of others - both soundly and effectively.

Provides an original analysis of negation - a central concept of logic - and how to define its meaning in proof-theoretic semantics.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

Provides an original analysis of negation - a central concept of logic - and how to define its meaning in proof-theoretic semantics.

This volume contains proceedings of the 1998 European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic held at the University of Economics, Prague.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

Shows the importance of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in the 1930s, in its own right and for his philosophy as a whole.

Introduces the topic of limited and changing awareness to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain reasoning.

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

This Element establishes the principles of rationality for degrees of belief by appealing to their role in guiding decisions.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

This Element introduces the only decision theory that really treats human decisions as part of nature, not supernatural interventions.

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine''s set theory, New Foundations.

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

This volume contains the proceedings of the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1999.

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

The first collection on the semantic conception of logic, covering its origin and applications in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics.

The first collection on the semantic conception of logic, covering its origin and applications in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics.

This book extends Bayesian epistemology to develop new approaches to general rational learning within the framework of probability theory.

This book extends Bayesian epistemology to develop new approaches to general rational learning within the framework of probability theory.

The book offers new insights into the lottery paradox, and thereby into how categorical and graded beliefs are formally connected.

The book offers new insights into the lottery paradox, and thereby into how categorical and graded beliefs are formally connected.

Provides an original, up-to-date, and systematic account of Aristotle''s views on contemplation''s place in the human good.

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

This volume explores the deflationary claim of the innocence of truth, taking into account recent results on axiomatic truth theories.

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

This volume explores the deflationary claim of the innocence of truth, taking into account recent results on axiomatic truth theories.

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage.

The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.

The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

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

The second edition of an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

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