Logic

Franz Brentano developed an original theory of intrinsic value which he attempted to base on his philosophical psychology. Roderick Chisholm presents here a critical exposition of this theory and its place in Brentano's general philosophical system. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792130099Author Research Fellow in Philosophy Luciano FloridiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Automatic Press / VIPPublisher Automatic Press /...

In this 2004 book, Noah Lemos presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of that tradition as...

Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory...

Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms. This conception, however, is unable to account for a variety of elements of modern legal systems that differ significantly from the classical notions. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901285Author Dov GabbayFormat HardbackPage Count 646Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

This monograph is a critical and historical account of Aristotelian essentialism and modal logic. In Chapter One, ancient and contemporary interpretations and claims of inconsistency in Aristotle's modal syllogistic are examined. A more consistent model...

This book covers elementary aspects of category theory and topos theory. It has few mathematical prerequisites and uses categorical methods throughout rather than beginning with set theoretic foundations. It works with key notions such as cartesian...

Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.Book InformationISBN 9780198244028Author J. L. MackieFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425530907Author Henry Longueville ManselFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan LibraryPublisher...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425550455Author William Dexter WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan LibraryPublisher Michigan...

Analysis of Dewey's pre-1916 work on logic and its relationship to his better-known 1938 book on the topic.When John Dewey's logical theory is discussed, the focus is invariably on his 1938 book Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. His earlier logical works are...

Wolff's book defends the Kantian idea of a "general logic" whose principles underlie special systems of deductive logic. It thus undermines "logical pluralism," which tolerates the co-existence of divergent systems of modern logic without asking for...

This volume consists of the revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the International Conference "Nietzsche On Instinct and Language", held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in December 2009. The list of...

Published in honor of Victor L. Selivanov, the 17 articles collected in this volume inform on the latest developments in computability theory and its applications in computable analysis; descriptive set theory and topology; and the theory of...

In the last decades, mathematical logic has developed into a technically quite sophisticated area of mathematics. Nevertheless, inspirations from philosophy and computer science continue to be important and noticeable. The series publishes conference...

The essays collected in this volume focus on the role of formalist aspects in mathematical theorizing and practice, examining issues such as infinity, finiteness, and proof procedures, as well as central historical figures in the field, including Frege,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810128064Author Clark ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 555g

Written in the form it discusses, Reorienting Rhetoric is both a narrative weaving out of a theme and a systematic treatment of a set of these ideas. The theme is the role of narration in the history of Western rhetoric. The ideas include the gradual...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986590603Author Sampson Oke IruohaFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Upbuilding PublicationsPublisher Upbuilding PublicationsWeight(grams) 230g

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Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic brings together ten new essays on Russell's...

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Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed...

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Nonmonotonic logics serve as formal models of defeasible reasoning, a type of reasoning where conclusions are drawn absent absolute certainty. Defeasible reasoning takes place when scientists interpret experiments, in medical diagnosis, and in practical...

Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.ReviewsIt is the only real treatise on truth in existence that takes full account of the liar paradox and other 'semantical'...

This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two...

Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. For example, philosophers have spilled a great deal of ink over the...

Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. For example, philosophers have spilled a great deal of ink over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817350475Author The University of Alabama PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554813933Author Gary James JasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm)...

Contingentism depicts normativity as one of our human effective possibilities rather than as a metaphysical bottleneck which we should necessary fulfill. The book is a critical survey of Richard McKay Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism”, in the light of various...