Logic

Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines. This book uses techniques from modern logics of information flow and action to develop a unified new...

The book presents a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values understood as subsets of some established set of (basic) truth values. After elucidating the importance of the very notion of a truth value in logic and philosophy, we...

Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. This book...

This is the first book-length treatment of hybrid logic and its proof-theory. Hybrid logic is an extension of ordinary modal logic which allows explicit reference to individual points in a model (where the points represent times, possible worlds, states...

This book stands at the intersection of two topics: the decidability and computational complexity of hybrid logics, and the deductive systems designed for them. Hybrid logics are here divided into two groups: standard hybrid logics involving nominals as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953156037Author Waajida L SmallFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint 13th & JoanPublisher 13th & JoanWeight(grams) 152g

First Logic is an introductory text covering numerous topics in logic. This third edition includes expanded exercise sets for all chapters, updated examples, and extended discussion of concepts such as inductive reasoning, truth trees, and natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938421402Author Richard L EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Advanced Reasoning ForumPublisher Advanced Reasoning ForumWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466978348Author Dr James C SasmorFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848903395Author Gerhard HeinzmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438510354Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 195g

Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge change. This is not about one logical system, but about a whole family of logics that allows us to specify static and dynamic aspects of multi-agent systems. This book provides various logics to support...

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on...

Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354994296Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint General PressPublisher General PressWeight(grams) 200g

Representational systems such as language, mind and perhaps even the brain exhibit a structure that is often assumed to be compositional. That is, the semantic value of a complex representation is determined by the semantic value of their parts and the...

This text features a novel, hands-on approach to the study of rhetorical devices. The student will become more engaged in the study of critical thinking by seeing its direct application to current events, student life, and decision-making. Critical...

The Logical Worldview: Skills to Distinguish Fact from Fiction in the Contemporary Information War is centered around understanding the ways in which individuals can discern truth amidst a deluge of information, particularly in an era dominated by...

Logic Made Easy: A Concise Introduction to Informal and Formal Logic is designed to help students expand their ability to think and reason. The text underscores the importance of logical thinking in professional and personal contexts. It demonstrates how...

Science and Hypothesis is a classic text in history and philosophy of science. Widely popular since its original publication in 1902, this first new translation of the work in over a century features unpublished material missing from earlier editions...

Centred around our knowledge of mathematical, modal and a priori truths, this is a collection that celebrates the work of Keith Hossack, who, throughout his career, has made outstanding contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and the...

This book explores the results of applying empirical methods to the philosophy of logic and mathematics. Much of the work that has earned experimental philosophy a prominent place in twenty-first century philosophy is concerned with ethics or...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences. It discusses models of explanation adopted in natural and social sciences. The author also elaborates upon naturalistic and...

Critical Thinking: Tools for Living an Examined Life features chapters devoted to a wide variety of topics and disciplines that contribute to the development of student's critical thinking skills. The book emphasizes the importance of cultivating one's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554812233Author Robert MuttiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 377gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Basics of Logic provides students with a strong grounding in logic with an emphasis on the importance of sophisticated, well-supported opinions with sound structure. The book is centred around the principle that critical thinking and logic teach...

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers, and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner. Rather than introducing philosophy...

Introductory Logic for College Students teaches students logical principles and argument forms in an accessible and understandable way. The book effectively uses explanations, illustrations, and examples that are particularly appropriate for those who...

This book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view. It raises criticalquestions about logic by examining various ways in which logic may be entangled with mathematics and metaphysics.Is logic topic-neutral and general? Can we take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526950761Author Ragnar StaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint StarabooksPublisher StarabooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

This book provides deep insights into current research in the rapidly developing field of connexive logic and includes contributions from leading scholars in the field. Unlike the most well known systems of non-classical logic, systems of connexive logic...

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental...

The content of the volume is divided as follows: after presenting two rival approaches to substantiality and causality: a traditional (ontological) view vs. a transcendental one (Rosiak) there follow two sections: the first presents studies of substance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420948646Author G W F HegelFormat PaperbackImprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 349g

Featuring fourteen new essays from an international team of renowned contributors, this volume explores the key issues, debates and questions in the metaphysics of logic. The book is structured in three parts, looking first at the main positions in the...

This open access book is a superb collection of some fifteen chapters inspired by Schroeder-Heister's groundbreaking work, written by leading experts in the field, plus an extensive autobiography and comments on the various contributions by...

This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan's work on self-reference. It serves not only as a tribute to one of the great thinkers in logic, but also as a celebration of self-reference in...

This volume contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Argumentation (Amsterdam, 2002) by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. It provides an insightful cross-section of the current state of affairs in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064522Author George BooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848902985Author Luca M PossatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 286g