Philosophy: logic

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy.

The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development.

Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences.

The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.

Model theory, a major branch of mathematical logic, plays a key role connecting logic and other areas of mathematics such as algebra, geometry, analysis, and combinatorics.

This volume aims to provide the elements for a systematic exploration of certain fundamental notions of Peirce and Husserl in respect with foundations of science by means of drawing a parallelism between their works.

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives.

Stephen Schiffer's writing has been central to analytic philosophy of language and mind since the 1970s.

Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts.

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated.

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated.

It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about.

This book is focused on the first three parts of Bolzano's Theory of Sciene and introduces a more systematic reconsideration of Bolzano's logial thought.

This book is focused on the first three parts of Bolzano's Theory of Sciene and introduces a more systematic reconsideration of Bolzano's logial thought.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

Reasons Why first argues that what philosophers are really after, or at least should be after, when they seek a theory of explanation, is a theory of answers to why-questions.

Reasons Why first argues that what philosophers are really after, or at least should be after, when they seek a theory of explanation, is a theory of answers to why-questions.

Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'.

Neil Tennant presents an original logical system with unusual philosophical, proof-theoretic, metalogical, computational, and revision-theoretic virtues.

Gila Sher approaches knowledge from the perspective of the basic human epistemic situation--the situation of limited yet resourceful beings, living in a complex world and aspiring to know it in its full complexity.

This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy.

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind.

Graham Priest presents an exploration of Buddhist metaphysics, drawing on texts which include those of Nagarjuna and Dogen.

This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy.

Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts?

Edna Ullmann-Margalit provides an original account of the emergence of norms.

Paolo Mancosu provides an original investigation of historical and systematic aspects of the notions of abstraction and infinity and their interaction.

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Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about.

The Boundary Stones of Thought seeks to defend classical logic from a number of attacks of a broadly anti-realist character.

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

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly.

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

Propositions has two main goals.

Propositions has two main goals.

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.

This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories.

Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise.

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.

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.

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free.

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Unity and Plurality presents novel ways of thinking about plurality while casting new light on the interconnections among the logical, philosophical, and linguistic aspects of plurals.

In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out a unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge.