Philosophy: logic

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The great Buddhist scholars Santaraksita (725 - 88 CE.

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Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age.

Zwar gibt es eine Vielzahl an Einführungen in die formale Logik und der Besuch entsprechender Grundkurse ist für die Studierenden unterschiedlichster Fächer nicht selten verpflichtend; wie man diese Logik allerdings jenseits der philosophischen Fächer anwenden kann, bleibt in der Regel unbeantwortet.

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.

Complicities explores the complicated-even contradictory-position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies.

National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s.

For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today.

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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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.

'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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The first volume of a two-volume intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology and positivism.

This book discusses the philosophical work of Decio Krause.

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

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

This volume explores the range of Montaigne''s philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.

Offers newly commissioned chapters on the range of Franz Brentano''s work.

This book aims to improve real-world critical thinking.

This book was the first new translation in English for fifty years of this classic of western political thought.

A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.

A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

"e;A classic of pure mathematics and symbolic logic .

The second, corrected edition of the first and only complete English translation of Kant's highly influential introduction to philosophy, presenting both the terminological and structural basis for his philosophical system, and offering an invaluable key to his main works, particularly the three Critiques.

This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors.