Philosophy: logic

Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel.

Contemporaryphilosophyseems a great swirling almost chaos.

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This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.

A thorough account of the philosophy of mathematics.

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity.

A deep dive into the historical and philosophical background of Gödel''s famed 1931 paper on incompleteness.

It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook.

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

The chapters in the present volume go beyond 'classical' extensional logic with respect to one important factor: they all include among the semantic constituents representations of so-called 'possible worlds'.

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.

Philosophy means 'love of wisdom,' but author Edmond Holmes fears the encroaching dominance of intellect over feeling.

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen.

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse.

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

In this short monograph, John Horty explores the difficulties presented for Gottlob Frege's semantic theory, as well as its modern descendents, by the treatment of defined expressions.

Spanning the period between Wittgenstein's return to Cambridge in 1929 and the first version of Philosophical Investigations in 1936, Piotr Dehnel explores the middle stage in Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical development and identifies the major issues which engrossed him, including phenomenology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language.

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This series of volumes is meant to extend the scope of what we can formalize in classical predicate logic, and in doing so see the limitations of what can be done.

The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is 'reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.

Wolff's book defends the Kantian idea of a "e;general logic"e; whose principles underlie special systems of deductive logic.

First published in 1990, this book consists of a detailed exposition of results of the theory of "e;interpretation"e; developed by G.

Poland has played an enormous role in the development of mathematical logic.

This is a monograph about logic.

The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy.

Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl's work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics.

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel's entire logic of being.

Dealing with uncertainty, moving from ignorance to knowledge, is the focus of cognitive processes.

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "e;L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui"e;, Geneva, 3-5 June 1988.

Originally published in 1968.

'A Geometry of Approximation' addresses Rough Set Theory, a field of interdisciplinary research first proposed by Zdzislaw Pawlak in 1982, and focuses mainly on its logic-algebraic interpretation.

This clear, accessible account of Hegelian logic makes a case for its enormous seductiveness, its surprising presence in the collective consciousness, and the dangers associated therewith.

This text offers an extension to the traditional Kripke semantics for non-classical logics by adding the notion of reactivity.

Der erste Teilband der Vorlesungsnachschriften zu Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik innerhalb der »Gesammelten Werke« (GW 23,1) enthält die Nachschriften, die in Jena sowie vor dem Hintergrund der ersten Auflage der »Enzyklopädie « (1817) entstanden sind.

The study presented in this book was entered upon by me from a legal point of view.

This book presents the results of these thinkers in a newly unified manner and displays their significance for the philosophy of mathematics.

"e;More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical texts by showing how the questions they ask can be placed in a modern context without loss or distortion.

The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet challenges of his 'middle period.