Philosophy: logic

This book is about Gottlob Frege.

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J.

Zwei der aufregendsten Denker der Gegenwart im Gespräch über Kant und den Geist der AufklärungWie kann ein Philosoph, der im Jahr 1724 geboren wurde, unser Denken heute maßgeblich beeinflussen?

The life and soul of any science are its problems.

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality.

Husserl's Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913) is one of the key texts of twentieth century philosophy.

Paradoxien zwingen uns dazu, die Prämissen unserer Überlegungen zu hinterfragen und gegebenenfalls einer strengen Prüfung zu unterziehen.

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

The dead are gone.

Originally published in 1967.

Being a subject and being conscious of being one are different realities.

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.

A Logical Introduction to Probability and Induction is a textbook on the mathematics of the probability calculus and its applications in philosophy.

Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.

The book offers a novel approach to the idea of divinity in guise of a philosophical doctrine called 'Logical Pantheism', according to which the only way to establish the existence of God undeniably is by equating God with Logical Space.

Relevance logics came of age with the one and only International Conference on relevant logics in 1974.

This edited volume focuses on the work of Professor Larisa Maksimova, providing a comprehensive account of her outstanding contributions to different branches of non-classical logic.

Proven techniques for getting your point across and winning argumentsIf you've ever felt the frustration of losing an argument--even when you knew you were right--to someone more skilled in pressing their point (and your hot buttons), this book is for you.

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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.

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity.

Though close reading and substantive writing are essential skills for the educated person, they are frequently ignored in education.

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.

Structure or system is a ubiquitous and uneliminable feature of all our experience and theory, and requires an ontological analysis.

This volume is dedicated to Prof.

This innovative study offers stimulating discussions of the relation of conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology and paradox.

This book examines Bertrand Russell's complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally.

This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology.

Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices normatively governed by inferential rules.

Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell.

This book navigates global educational policy concerning critical thinking skills and competencies.

This reissue of D.

The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning introduces healthcare students and professionals to the foundations of critical thinking and offers examples of applications within clinical fields.

This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles.

In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns.

Homo Mysticus presents three renowned lectures delivered by Wolfgang Struve from 1974 to 1984, translated into English in this volume.

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes.

This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999.

Logic With Trees is a new and original introduction to modern formal logic.

This book presents comparisons of recent accounts in the formalization of natural language (dynamic logics and formal semantics) with informal conceptions of interaction (dialogue, natural logic and attribution of rationality) that have been developed in both psychology and epistemology.

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth.

In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (ie.