Philosophy: logic

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 monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas.

This book examines the role of acts of choice in classical and intuitionistic mathematics.

This book, presented in two parts, offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions.

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.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences.

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.

This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and communications.

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

This volume honours the life and work of Solomon Feferman, one of the most prominent mathematical logicians of the latter half of the 20th century.

This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir.

This volume presents the state of the art in the algebraic investigation into substructural logics.

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising?

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.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

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

This book presents a detailed treatment of ordinal combinatorics of large sets tailored for independence results.

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century.

An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.

Der Frieden dieser Welt lebt in den Herzen jedes Einzelnen.

Wahrheit, Lüge & Vernunft - Über die Macht der ManipulationWir alle sind Fakten und Emotionen ausgesetzt und nicht immer sind die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und Täuschung klartrennbar.

This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works.

This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works.

Samson Abramsky's wide-ranging contributions to logical and structural aspects of Computer Science have had a major influence on the field.

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices.

The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy.

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This book argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning.

Das Denken stößt immer wieder auf Figuren prinzipieller Unabschließbarkeit, etwa den infiniten Regress oder den Zirkel.

This book redefines our understanding of information as more than mere data or communication-it presents information as the fundamental fabric of reality itself.

This book redefines our understanding of information as more than mere data or communication-it presents information as the fundamental fabric of reality itself.