Philosophy: logic

How do we think?

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 volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century.

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.

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse In the 1860s, northern newspapers attacked Abraham Lincoln's policies by attacking his character, using the terms "e;drunk,"e; "e;baboon,"e; "e;too slow,"e; "e;foolish,"e; and "e;dishonest.

A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law.

Arguably the most famous and recognized detective in history, Sherlock Holmes is considered by many to be the first pop icon of the modern age.

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This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes-such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing-are relations held between agents and propositions.

Greg Restall's Logic provides concise introductions to propositional and first-order predicate logic while showing how formal logic intersects with substantial philosophical issues such as vagueness, conditionals, relevance, propositional attitudes, and opaque contents.

Paradoxes are more than just intellectual puzzles: they raise substantive philosophical issues.

More and more philosophers are using modal concepts to shed light on various philosophical problems and to analyse philosophical concepts.

Combining a detailed study of Hegel's political philosophy with close readings of two important literary works that help clarify his thought, MacDonald traces the historical development of an enduring link between personal lives and stable political communities.

Combining a detailed study of Hegel's political philosophy with close readings of two important literary works that help clarify his thought, MacDonald traces the historical development of an enduring link between personal lives and stable political communities.

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.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

'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.

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.