Philosophy: logic

This Element introduces the only decision theory that really treats human decisions as part of nature, not supernatural interventions.

The first historical account of Raymond Aron''s role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the short twentieth century.

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France''s last nineteenth-century revolution.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

Presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France''s last nineteenth-century revolution.

This volume contains the proceedings of the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1999.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau''s important early political writings in faithful English translations.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau''s major later political writings, in up-to-date English translations.

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

The first collection on the semantic conception of logic, covering its origin and applications in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics.

The first collection on the semantic conception of logic, covering its origin and applications in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics.

The book offers new insights into the lottery paradox, and thereby into how categorical and graded beliefs are formally connected.

The book offers new insights into the lottery paradox, and thereby into how categorical and graded beliefs are formally connected.

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage.

The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.

The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.

A subtle critique of declining communal virtues, arguing instead for active citizenship.

A subtle critique of declining communal virtues, arguing instead for active citizenship.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

An English translation of Hegel''s introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history.

An English translation of Hegel''s introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history.

The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.

The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

The second edition of an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

The second edition of an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

This comprehensive and accessible Companion examines the life and writings of Edmund Burke, one of the eighteenth century''s most influential thinkers.

This comprehensive and accessible Companion examines the life and writings of Edmund Burke, one of the eighteenth century''s most influential thinkers.

This book explains how the meanings of the symbols of logic are determined by the rules that govern them.

A founding work of political philosophy with expanded introduction and added explanatory matter.

This book explains how the meanings of the symbols of logic are determined by the rules that govern them.

A founding work of political philosophy with expanded introduction and added explanatory matter.

This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of examples.

This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of examples.

The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750.

A revised 1988 version of Peter Laslett''s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.

Luther''s On Secular Authority and Calvin''s On Civil Government, translated here, attempt to find a balance between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities.

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

The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750.

A revised 1988 version of Peter Laslett''s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.