Philosophy: logic

Haack''s book has established an international reputation for its clarity, thorough scholarship and careful analyses.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

This book offers an array of important perspectives on Kant and nonconceptualism from some of the leading scholars in current Kant studies.

New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983).

Hilbert's Programs & Beyond presents the foundational work of David Hilbert in a sequence of thematically organized essays.

This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief.

This volume presents recent advances in philosophical logic with chapters focusing on non-classical logics, including paraconsistent logics, substructural logics, modal logics of agency and other modal logics.

This book offers an inspiring and naive view on language and reasoning.

Critical thinking is becoming increasingly prominent as an academic discipline taught and examined in schools and universities, as well as a crucial skill for everyday life.

This book is dedicated to Dick de Jongh's contributions to the theory of intuitionistic and provability logics.

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy.

This book, presented in two parts, offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions.

Introduction to Logic is clear and concise, uses interesting examples (many philosophical in nature), and has easy-to-use proof methods.

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This collection of David Lewis''s most recent papers is devoted to his work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years.

Samson Abramsky's wide-ranging contributions to logical and structural aspects of Computer Science have had a major influence on the field.

DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia - San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its main topics: 1.

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm's theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic - their points of continuity and contradiction.

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This book introduces the active area of the model theory of fields, concentrating on connections to stability theory.

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell's work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell's contribution to education - an area to which he devoted no small part of his energies - had yet appeared.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

This volume collects selected papers presented at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation in 2018 held in Hangzhou, China.

Non-Classical Logics and their Applications to Fuzzy Subsets is the first major work devoted to a careful study of various relations between non-classical logics and fuzzy sets.

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since.

This volume examines the implications of Heidegger''s thinking for logic and for speaking logically of being in contrast to beings.

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The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research.

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This book introduces the theory of graded consequence (GCT) and its mathematical formulation.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences.

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Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts?

The aim of the first volume of the present Handbook of Philosophical Logic is essentially two-fold: First of all, the chapters in this volume should provide a concise overview of the main parts of classical logic.

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

"e;I am convinced of the urgent need for a democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognized ignorance.

This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science.

This volume brings together those papers of mine which may be of interest not only to various specialists but also to philosophers.

The Italian mathematician Mario Pieri (1860-1913) played a major role in the development of algebraic geometry and foundations of mathematics around the turn of the twentieth century.

The relative merits and demerits of historically prominent views about truth, such as the correspondence theory, coherentism, pragmatism, verificationism, and instrumentalism have been subject to much attention, and have fueled the long-lived debate over which of these views is the most plausible.

Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M.

Synkategorematische Sprachzeichen bilden ein zentrales Thema der Logik, Sprachphilosophie, Linguistik und Grammatik von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.

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.

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Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on.