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Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field 9780199242894
Booksplease Price: £46.91Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new... -
Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field 9780199241712
Booksplease Price: £74.27Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new... -
Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field 9780199230747
Booksplease Price: £51.93Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Goedel... -
Science without Numbers by Hartry Field 9780198777915
Booksplease Price: £98.93Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can... -
Science without Numbers by Hartry Field 9780198777922
Booksplease Price: £36.30Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can... -
Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field 9780199230754
Booksplease Price: £97.22Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Goedel... -
Logic Without Gaps or Gluts: How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic by Benjamin Alan Burgis 9783030946234
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he... -
Logic Without Gaps or Gluts: How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic by Benjamin Alan Burgis 9783030946265
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he... -
Doubt Truth to be a Liar by Graham Priest 9780199263288
Booksplease Price: £81.72Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of... -
The Philosophy of Mathematics Today by Matthias Schirn 9780198236542
Booksplease Price: £103.14The Philosophy of Mathematics Today gives a panorama of the best current work in this lively field, through twenty essays specially written for this collection by leading figures. The topics include... -
Theories of Truth by Frederick F. Schmitt 9780631222163
RRP: £116.95Booksplease Price: £106.38The classic and contemporary readings in this collection represent the four most influential theories of truth - correspondence, pragmatist, coherence, and deflationary theories. A collection of... -
Fictionalism in Metaphysics by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780199282197
Booksplease Price: £68.75Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. It came to prominence in philosophy in 1980, when Hartry Field argued that mathematics does not have to be true to... -
Theories of Truth Frederick F. Schmitt (Indiana University) 9780631222170
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.86The classic and contemporary readings in this collection represent the four most influential theories of truth - correspondence, pragmatist, coherence, and deflationary theories. A collection of... -
Causation and its Basis in Fundamental Physics by Douglas Kutach 9780199936205
Booksplease Price: £107.59This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "the central problem in the metaphysics of causation": the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the... -
Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles by Tim Maudlin 9780199203918
Booksplease Price: £60.70Truth and Paradox offers a comprehensive account of truth values and the norms governing claims about truth, based on a new approach to logic and semantics. Since the seminal work of Tarski in the... -
Doubt Truth to be a Liar by Graham Priest 9780199238514
Booksplease Price: £54.66The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that... -
Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science by John Earman 9780520356559
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their... -
Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science by John Earman 9780520304802
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their... -
Spandrels of Truth by Jc Beall 9780199268733
Booksplease Price: £57.69Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which 'is true' is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. This device, when... -
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics by Mark Balaguer 9780195143980
Booksplease Price: £46.96In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (i.e., the view that abstract, or non-spatio-temporal, mathematical... -
Understanding the Infinite by Shaughan Lavine 9780674921177
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26How can the infinite, a subject so remote from our finite experience, be an everyday tool for the working mathematician? Blending history, philosophy, mathematics, and logic, Shaughan Lavine answers...