Philosophy: logic

This book explores the results of applying empirical methods to the philosophy of logic and mathematics.

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind.

This monograph is designed to provide an introduction to the principal areas of tense logic.

Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in which noted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truth and its role in our day-to-day reasoning.

Proofs and models are key tools for analysing clarifying our concepts.

This volume presents some of the main areas and results of general metamathematics, including the results of Gödel et al.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics.

This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else.

Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between Information, Interaction, and Agency.

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

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal.

This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbaki's notion of structures meres.

This is a collection of invited papers from the 1975 International Sym- posium on Multiple-valued Logic.

Standard STEM courses, for all of their value, do not tend to include systematic lectures or treatment about the nature of the scientific method.

What is the nature of a conceptual scheme?

This edited volume collects essays on the four-valued logic known as Belnap-Dunn logic, or first-degree entailment logic (FDE).

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This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians, mainly from Asia, to address a variety of logical and philosophical topics of current interest, offering a representative cross-section of the philosophical logic landscape in early 21st-century Asia.

This book is a consideration of Hegel's view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view's relevance for contemporary philosophical logic.

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.

This edited book focuses on non-classical logics and their applications, highlighting the rapid advances and the new perspectives that are emerging in this area.

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices.

This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning.

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science.

Entdecke die zeitlose Magie der stoischen Philosophie – Wegweiser für ein gelasseneres, selbst bestimmtes Leben.

This third volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood).

As society comes to rely increasingly on software for its welfare and prosperity there is an urgent need to create systems in which it can trust.

Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design.

Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939) was one of the leading Polish logicians and founders of the Warsaw School of Logic whose membership included, beside himself, Jan Lukasiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Alfred Tarski, and many others.

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics.

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S.

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents.

Aristotle's Organon in Old and New Logic 1800 1950 explores the reception and interpretation of Aristotle's logic over the last two centuries.

A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series.

A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline.

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

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Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition.

Between the two world wars, Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939), created the famous and important system of foundations of mathematics that comprises three deductive theories: Protothetic, Ontology, and Mereology.