Philosophy: logic

Grennan bases his evaluation of arguments on two criteria: logical adequacy and pragmatic adequacy.

We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes us human.

'Oh, no, not another philosophy book!

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

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.

We talk about irrationality when behaviour defies explanation or prediction, when decisions are driven by emotions or instinct rather than by reflection, when reasoning fails to conform to basic principles of logic and probability, and when beliefs lack coherence or empirical support.

Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art.

Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion.

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more.

This book develops a new approach to plural arbitrary reference and examines mereology, including considering four theses on the alleged innocence of mereology.

Making Your Mind Matter is a practical guide to effective thinking in college and in everyday life.

Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field.

Henkin-Keisler models emanate from a modification of the Henkin construction introduced by Keisler to motivate the definition of ultraproducts.

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This edition presents Moore''s fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, showing his influential break with idealism and the development of logical analysis.

This edition presents Moore''s fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, showing his influential break with idealism and the development of logical analysis.

This 1998 book breathes new life into classical design arguments, showing how incomplete undirected causes are for science.

A selective, critical history of the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years.

A translation of Hegel''s ''Greater Logic'' which includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816).

A selective, critical history of the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years.

A translation of Hegel''s ''Greater Logic'' which includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816).

The 2007 proceedings from the Annual European Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic.

Papers examining aspects of Godel''s work gathered from a symposium celebrating Gödel''s centennial and papers from a 2004 ASL symposium.

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

This book discusses the philosophical work of Decio Krause.

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

An interdisciplinary collection of major essays on reasoning by a well-known group of philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists.

Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones.

Advocates a skeptical position of philosophy and discusses its practical applications in science, ethics, aesthetics, and politics.

The most complete defense of causal decision theory available.

This book clearly introduces the major topics in logic and their relation to current philosophical issues.

Burgess''s essays address key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation.

Computability and Logic is a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background.

Walton provides an introduction to argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony.

Paul Redding examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within analytic philosophy.

This 2007 volume includes surveys, tutorials, and selected research papers on advances in logic.

Presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives.

Jaakko Hintikka discusses the important problem of how knowledge is first acquired.

In this 2005 book, logic, mathematical knowledge and objects are explored alongside reason and intuition in the exact sciences.

This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

An introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, through accessible, everyday examples.

In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle''s views on truth and falsehood.

Peirce (1839–1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher.

A collection of essays on two different accounts of practical reason.

This book aims to improve real-world critical thinking.

A Theory of Argument develops a novel approach to argument interpretation and evaluation.

This is a major contribution to the study of argumentation.

This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

This volume contains essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics.