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Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita
by Antonio T. De Nicolas  Publisher Comments Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized posibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves. In his work, philosophy becomes an ongoing synthesis of knowledge and sensation. This new translation of The Bhagavad Gita, with its...
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Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
by Scott Soames Publisher Comments In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions....
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A Consideration of: Reality, Human Nature, and Metaphysics
by Adam Charles Rutherford Publisher Comments A Consideration of: Reality, Human Nature, and Metaphysics is just that, a consideration of reality, human nature, and metaphysics. Dealing with reality, and more specifically how every person's perception of reality is different for numerous reasons and...
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Deduction
by Daniel Bonevac Publisher Comments "<BR> Deduction" is an efficient and elegant presentation of classical first-order logic. It presents a truth tree system based on the work of Jeffrey, as well as a natural deduction system inspired by that of Kalish and Montague....
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The Law of Non-Contradiction
by Graham Priest Publisher Comments The Law of Non-Contradiction -- that no contradiction can be true -- has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since the work of Aristotle, in Book G of the Metaphysics. It is an assumption challenged from a variety of angles in this collection of original...
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Saving Truth from Paradox
by Hartry Field Publisher Comments Saving 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 Godel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach...
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Approaching Truth: Essays in Honour of Ilkka Niiniluoto
by S. Pihlstrom Publisher Comments Ilkka Niiniluoto, a distinguished philosopher of science, has been a tirelesspokesman for scientific realism and reason more generally. Trained in the tradition of the Finnish school of inductive logic he has refined the notion of truthlikeness...
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Papers in Philosophical Logic: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by David Lewis Publisher Comments This collection of David Lewis??'s most recent papers is devoted to his work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years....
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Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by Christopher S Hill Publisher Comments There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of...
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Introduction To Logic 12TH Edition
by Irving M Copi Publisher Comments Dedicated to the memory of Irving M. Copi, the twelfth edition of "Introduction to Logic" retains its breadth of coverage, while breaking new ground with a compelling new design and inclusion of new pedagogic features to help students in their study of...
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Argumentation Library #8: Anyone Who Has a View
by Frans H. Eemeren Publisher Comments This volume contains a selection of papers (keynote addresses and other important papers) from the International Conference on Argumentation at Amsterdam of 2002 by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. The contributions are...
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Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning & Unce Volume 3
by Dov M Gabbay Publisher Comments Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal foundations. It deals with the addition, deletion and...
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Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language
by S Morris Engel Publisher Comments Witty, thought-provoking exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, propaganda and other misuses of language -- and how to combat them.<BR>...
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Beyond the Limits of Thought (2ND 02 Edition)
by Graham Priestn Publisher Comments This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition. Praise for previous edition: "a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every...
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Hegel's Science of Logic and Global Climate Change
by Scott Borchers Book News Annotation Borchers (philosophy, Bemidji State U.) examines Hegel's masterpiece using information about global warming to illustrate Hegel's philosophical concepts, and demonstrating how Hegel's explanation of relations in Science of Logic resonates empirically...
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Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism
by Jody Azzouni Publisher Comments If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracta eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? Jody Azzouni says no, and he claims that the way to escape such...
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First Course in Logic-gold Edition (05 Edition)
by K. Codell Carter Publisher Comments Providing students with a more understandable introduction to logic without sacrificing rigor, "A First Course in Logic" presents topics and methods in a highly accessible and integrated manner. By integrating and comparing topics throughout and using...
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Language, Truth and Logic
by Alfred Jules Ayer Publisher Comments Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical...
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Nonsense : Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred. (06 Edition)
by Robert Gula Synopsis NONSENSE is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. On one level, it is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical?how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are...
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The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics
by Marcus Giaquinto Publisher Comments Marcus Giaquinto tells the compelling story of one of the great intellectual adventures of the modern era: the attempt to find firm foundations for mathematics. From the late nineteenth century to the present day, this project has stimulated some of the...
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