Philosophy: logic

This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes.

This book presents a systematic treatment of deductive aspects and structures of fuzzy logic understood as many valued logic sui generis.

This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics.

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

The forms and scope of logic rest on assumptions of how language and reasoning connect to experience.

Legal argumentation is a distinctively multidisciplinary field of inquiry.

Bertrand Russell's professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge.

This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences.

Hegel is regarded as the pinnacle of German idealism and his work has undergone an enormous revival since 1975.

Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward.

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

Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz.

Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past.

A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is a historically oriented introduction to the central themes in philosophy of language.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data- processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) ani- mal, or machine.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

Originally published in 1969.

Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.

This book clarifies the idea of critical thinking by investigating the 'critical' practices of academics across a range of disciplines.

The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic.

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple.

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts on the big questions surrounding us all today.

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

First Published in 1964, Studies in Metaphilosophy presents and develop the hypothesis about the nature of metaphysical theories.

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

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.

This book offers the first-ever English translation of Oskar Becker's Zur Logik der Modalitaten.

This monograph grew out of research at Xerox PARC and the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) during the first year of CSLI's existence.

This book gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers.

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First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is necessary to show both how the logical relation theory of probability can be given a formulation sufficiently objective for the purposes of science, and how other attempts to explain the objective character of probability judgements are unsatisfactory.

An in-depth, accessible, up-to-date account and philosophical insight into the semantic, model-theoretic conception of logical consequence.

Esta obra ofrece una reconstrucción racional, ajustada a las categorías de Imre Lakatos, del programa de investigación que fija una pirámide geométrica con el objetivo de dar cuenta de la percepción visual.

Focusing on moments of continuity and rupture, as well as the thin lines of fracture in Critical philosophy itself, Metaphysics of Nature and Failure in Kant's Opus postumum navigates the rough terrain of Kant's final thoughts.

This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance-an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy.

Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism.

Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrodinger's cat - these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences.

This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung.

Ranging from Alan Turing's seminal 1936 paper to the latest work on Kolmogorov complexity and linear logic, this comprehensive new work clarifies the relationship between computability on the one hand and constructivity on the other.

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