Logic

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789024724734Author Imre RuszaFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 830g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901698Author Peter Schroeder-HeisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 776g

This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359044569Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359044583Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing House

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference. It emphasizes a pragmatic, experimental and fallibilist view of knowledge without sacrificing formal rigor. Within this context, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027710499Author Donald NuteFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Springer

This volume contains 12 papers addressed to researchers and advanced students in informal logic and related fields, such as argumentation, formal logic, and communications. Among the issues discussed are attempts to rethink the nature of argument and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799101313Author Vincent, F. HendricksFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Vince Inc Press, VIPPublisher Vince Inc Press, VIPWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799101306Author Vincent, F. HendricksFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vince Inc Press, VIPPublisher Vince Inc Press, VIPWeight(grams) 340g

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy, and critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic, model...

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it. In a systematic survey this study investigates what is at stake when truth is given up. A historical overview shows how the current...

Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy. Kanger's most original achievements were in the areas of general proof theory, the semantics of modal and deontic logic, and the logical analysis of the concept of...

The aim of this monograph is to expound the conceptions of temporalized modality at issue in various Arabic logical texts. I claim to have been able to make good logical sense of doctrines of which even the later Arab logicians themselves came to despair...

The approach to probability theory followed in this book (which differs radically from the usual one, based on a measure-theoretic framework) characterizes probability as a linear operator rather than as a measure, and is based on the concept of...

After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly...

This volume presents a number of systems of logic which can be considered as alternatives to classical logic. The notion of what counts as an alternative is a somewhat problematic one. There are extreme views on the matter of what is the 'correct'...

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference. It emphasizes a pragmatic, experimental and fallibilist view of knowledge without sacrificing formal rigor. Within this context, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648890673Author Jonathan O ChimakonamFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege. In particular, Ventimiglia argues that Aquinas' doctrine of being can be better understood through Frege's distinction between the 'there is'...

Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-Ianguage hand books of logie and numerous monographs on topieal discoveries in the foundations of mathematies. These publications on the foundations of mathematies as a whole are rather difficult for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901414Author Federico L G FaroldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s. It revives inductive logic by bringing out the underlying epistemology. The main strength of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938421310Author Richard L EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Advanced Reasoning ForumPublisher Advanced Reasoning ForumWeight(grams) 481g

William Ernest Johnson (1858-1931) was a renowned British logician and economist, and also a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Originally published in 1921, this book forms the first of a three-volume series by Johnson relating to 'the whole field of...

This book presents an English translation of a classic Russian text on duality theoryfor Heyting algebras. Written by Georgian mathematician Leo Esakia, the text provedpopular among Russian-speaking logicians. This translation helps make the...

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the of the 29th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, WoLLIC 2023, held in...

Philosophical Pragmatism in Context looks at human affairs and the condition of man from a purposive point of view. From this point of view it is a centrally significant feature of man that we humans are creatures possessing preferences, desires, wants,...

This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir. It examines topics which, in one way or another, are connected to the various aspects of his multidisciplinary research interests. Based on this criterion, the book is...

Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation.In addition to theoretical and methodological...

It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike the "conti nental" reader for whom this work was...

Philosophic Thoughts: Essays on Logic and Philosophy comprises a collection of essays on logic and philosophy. The first section features essays that address issues in informal logic, such as the question of whether fallacies are common and the nature of...

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy. It examines concepts and issues relating to logic and mathematics, as well as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. These topics are all studied by different Arabic philosophers...

This volume comprises a selection of contributions to the theorizing about argumentation that have been presented at the 9th conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), held in Amsterdam in July 2018. The chapters...

Klemens Szaniawski was born in Warsaw on March 3, 1925. He began to study philosophy in the clandestine Warsaw University during World War II. Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Jan Lukasiewicz, Maria and Stanislaw Ossowskis, Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz, and Henryk Hii:...

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smirnov was born on March 2, 1931. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1954. From 1957 till 1961 he was a lecturer in philosophy and logic at the Tomsk University. Since 1961 his scientific activity continued in Moscow at...

This book covers work written by leading scholars from different schools within the research area of paraconsistency. The authors critically investigate how contemporary paraconsistent logics can be used to better understand human reasoning in science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788743026723Author George ManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 127g

Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation. In addition to theoretical and methodological...

Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification...