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Varieties of Logic by Stewart Shapiro
RRP: $39.33Booksplease Price: $37.56Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to... -
Varieties of Logic by Stewart Shapiro 9780199696529
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $98.27Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to... -
Vagueness in Context by Stewart Shapiro 9780199544783
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $52.57Stewart Shapiro's aim in Vagueness in Context is to develop both a philosophical and a formal, model-theoretic account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a... -
Vagueness in Context by Stewart Shapiro 9780199280391
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $133.45Stewart Shapiro's aim in Vagueness in Context is to develop both a philosophical and a formal, model-theoretic account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a... -
Classical First-Order Logic by Stewart Shapiro
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31One is often said to be reasoning well when they are reasoning logically. Many attempts to say what logical reasoning is have been proposed, but one commonly proposed system is first-order classical... -
Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology by Stewart Shapiro 9780195139303
RRP: $48.36Booksplease Price: $31.77Do numbers, sets, and so forth, exist? What do mathematical statements mean? Are they literally true or false, or do they lack truth values altogether? Addressing questions that have attracted lively... -
Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics by Stewart Shapiro
Booksplease Price: $59.70This unique text by Stewart Shapiro looks at a range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics in four comprehensive sections. The first describes questions and issues about... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic by Stewart Shapiro 9780195325928
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $61.44Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy. Since logic is the study of correct reasoning, it is a fundamental branch of epistemology and a priority in any... -
Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic by Stewart Shapiro 9780198250296
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $55.42Stewart Shapiro presents a distinctive and persuasive view of the foundations of mathematics, arguing controversially that second-order logic has a central role to play in laying these foundations... -
Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic by Stewart Shapiro 9780198533917
Booksplease Price: $116.13The central contention of this book is that second-order logic has a central role to play in laying the foundations of mathematics. In order to develop the argument fully, the author presents a... -
Philosophy of Mathematics by Oystein Linnebo 9780691202297
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkersMathematics is a model of precision and objectivity, but it appears distinct from the empirical... -
Philosophy of Mathematics by Oystein Linnebo 9780691161402
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholars Mathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a... -
Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96Philosophical Logic is a clear and concise critical survey of nonclassical logics of philosophical interest written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. After giving an overview... -
Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays by Geoffrey Hellman 9781108714006
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $33.44In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between... -
Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays by Geoffrey Hellman
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $101.99In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between... -
Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation by Geoffrey Hellman 9780198240341
Booksplease Price: $70.41Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers... -
The Philosophy of Mathematics Today by Matthias Schirn 9780198236542
Booksplease Price: $138.39The 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... -
Constructibility and Mathematical Existence by Charles S. Chihara 9780198239758
Booksplease Price: $62.55This book is concerned with `the problem of existence in mathematics'. It develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of... -
Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy by Dejan Makovec 9783030250072
Booksplease Price: $144.63This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of... -
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium by Gabriele M. Mras 9783110763478
RRP: $40.64Booksplease Price: $29.98This volume presents different conceptions of logic and mathematics and discuss their philosophical foundations and consequences. This concerns first of all topics of Wittgenstein's ideas on logic... -
Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy by Dejan Makovec 9783030250102
Booksplease Price: $144.63This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of... -
Constructibility and Mathematical Existence by Charles S. Chihara 9780198248170
Booksplease Price: $106.84This book is concerned with `the problem of existence in mathematics'. It develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of... -
Truth as One and Many by Michael P. Lynch 9780199218738
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $78.28What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More... -
An Introduction to Metalogic by Aladdin M. Yaqub 9781554811717
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $36.86An Introduction to Metalogic is a uniquely accessible introduction to the metatheory of first-order predicate logic. No background knowledge of logic is presupposed, as the book is entirely... -
Hilbert's Programs and Beyond by Wilfried Sieg 9780195372229
Booksplease Price: $141.04Hilbert's Programs & Beyond presents the foundational work of David Hilbert in a sequence of thematically organized essays. They first trace the roots of Hilbert's work to the radical transformation... -
Hilbert's Programs and Beyond by Wilfried Sieg 9780190948191
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $40.09Hilbert's Programs & Beyond presents the foundational work of David Hilbert in a sequence of thematically organized essays. They first trace the roots of Hilbert's work to the radical transformation... -
Fixing Frege by John P. Burgess 9780691122311
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $76.73The great logician Gottlob Frege attempted to provide a purely logical foundation for mathematics. His system collapsed when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. Thereafter,... -
Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction by John MacFarlane
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $46.80Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline. In this book, John MacFarlane helps the reader think about the limitations of, presuppositions of, and alternatives... -
The Taming of the True by Neil Tennant 9780199251605
Booksplease Price: $72.21The Taming of the True poses a broad challenge to the realist views of meaning and truth that have been prominent in recent philosophy. Neil Tennant starts with a careful critical survey of the... -
Mathematics as a Science of Patterns by Michael D. Resnik 9780198250142
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $70.41Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling... -
Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back by Geoffrey Hellman 9780198712749
Booksplease Price: $99.70Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the... -
Logical Labyrinths Raymond Smullyan 9781568814438
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $137.27This book features a unique approach to the teaching of mathematical logic by putting it in the context of the puzzles and paradoxes of common language and rational thought. It serves as a bridge... -
Goedel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse Torkel Franzen 9781568812380
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $45.72"Among the many expositions of Goedel's incompleteness theorems written for non-specialists, this book stands apart. With exceptional clarity, Franzen gives careful, non-technical explanations both... -
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is by Graham Priest 9780521670265
Booksplease Price: $53.96This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics...