In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.
The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.
Identity and Discrimination This updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material.
This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse.
Intensional logic has emerged, since the 1960' s, as a powerful theoretical and practical tool in such diverse disciplines as computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and even the foundations of mathematics.
The papers collected in this volume were written over a period of some eight or nine years, with some still earlier material incorporated in one of them.
This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have been neglected by the official history of modern logic.
Die Frage, ob die kantische Tafel der Urteile vollständig und wenn ja, ob diese Vollständigkeit deduktiv beweisbar ist, bildet eine der zentralen Problemstellungen der Kantforschung.
Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of truth on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes.
This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.
This revised edition of the highly recommended book "e;First-Order Modal Logic"e;, originally published in 1998, contains both new and modified chapters reflecting the latest scientific developments.
