Philosophy: logic

Sir Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.

This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold 'Em poker.

Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction.

This volume consists of the revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the International Conference "e;Nietzsche On Instinct and Language"e;, held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in December 2009.

This book creates a conceptual schema that acts as a correlation between Epistemology and Epistemic Logic.

Logische Argumentation in den Geisteswissenschaften.

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.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DaLi 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in July/August 2022.

John Mikhail explores whether moral psychology is usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar.

This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory.

Is there any justification for Heidegger's famous 'violence' against Kant's philosophy?

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.

John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic.

Infinity is paradoxical in many ways.

Roy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox-a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others later than it in the sequence-with special attention paid to the idea that this paradox provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity.

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.

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

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

Published in 1946, this volume does not purpose to be a treatise on logic.

Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant.

Over the past decade, rational agency has come to be recognised as a central theme in artificial intelligence.

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods.

such questions for centuries (unrestricted by the capabilities of any hard- ware).

When this book was originally published in 1957 there had been lively debates on the air and in the press about the bearing of modern philosophy upon Christianity, but there had been relatively little sustained discussion of the subject.

Internal logic is the logic of content.

In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student's education.

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many clearly explained legal and non-legal examples.

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone's lives.

How can we advance knowledge?

The focus of this textbook is the meaning of linguistic expressions, typically full sentences and longer texts.

In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism.

Anyone reflecting on the methodology of legal reasoning faces a difficult task.

In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth.

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers.

This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning.

Originally published in 1973.

While we are commonly told that the distinctive method of mathematics is rigorous proof, and that the special topic of mathematics is abstract structure, there has been no agreement among mathematicians, logicians, or philosophers as to just what either of these assertions means.

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

This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts).

This book attempts to systematically clarify when rules should and should not be followed.