Logic

This book celebrates the work of Don Pigozzi on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In addition to articles written by leading specialists and his disciples, it presents Pigozzi's scientific output and discusses his impact on the development of science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901001Author Mark WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 346g

A system of philosophy of the sort presented in this and the following volumes begins with logic. Philosophy properly speaking is characterized by the kind oflogic it employs, for what it employs it assumes, however silently; and what it assumes it...

Modal Logic is a branch of logic with applications in many related disciplines such as computer science, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. Over the last twenty years, in all of these neighbouring fields, modal systems have been...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference, TAP 2023, as part of STAF 2023, a federation of conferences on Software Technologies, Applications and Foundations, which includes two more conferences besides TAP: ICGT...

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a workshop on formal seman tics of natural languages which was held in Tiibingen from the 1st to the 3rd of December 1977. Its main body consists of revised versions of most of the papers presented on that...

Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure...

The present volume has its origin in a meeting of philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists that was held at Umea University, Sweden, September 24-26, 1993. The meeting was organized by the Department of Philosophy in cooperation with the...

Labelled deduction is an approach to providing frameworks for presenting and using different logics in a uniform and natural way by enriching the language of a logic with additional information of a semantic proof-theoretical nature. Labelled...

This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ("falsificationism") and his...

Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself. These are in...

Tadeusz Kotarbinski is one of towering figures in contemporary Polish philosophy. He was a great thinker, a great teacher, a great organizer of philosophical and scientific life (he was, among others, the rector of the Uni versi ty of t6dz, the president...

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant. This conception of the discipline has been challenged recently by the plurality of logics and in this book, Pavel Arazim extends the debate to offer...

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...