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Logic and Philosophy (10TH 07 Edition)
by Alan Tidman  Publisher Comments This text is designed for those instructors who desire a comprehensive introduction to formal logic that is both rigorous and accessible to students encountering the subject for the first time. Numerous, carefully crafted exercise sets accompanied by...
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Mathematics and Its Applications #252: The Posing of Questions
by Andrzej Wisniewski Publisher Comments This book presents a novel approach to the logic of questions. This approach starts from the fact that in many cases arriving at a question resembles coming to a conclusion: there are premises involved and some inferential thought processes take place...
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Postmodernism Rightly Understood (American Intellectual Culture)
by Peter Augustine Lawler Synopsis Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism -- a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Lawler reflects on the flaws of...
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Analyzing Love (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by Robert Brown Publisher Comments Analyzing Love is concerned with four basic and neglected problems concerning love. The first is identifying its relevant features: distinguishing it from liking and benevolence and from sexual desire; describing the objects that can be loved and the...
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A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
by Normand Baillargeon Publisher Comments "My personal feeling is that citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy."-Noam Chomsky "Exercising...
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Vagueness (96 Edition)
by Timothy Williamson Publisher Comments "Vagueness" provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox...
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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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Elements of Logic
by Richard Whately Publisher Comments 1875. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, treatise on Logic comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana. De Morgan wrote in 1860 that Whately had restored the study of logic in England. Whateley's achievement was not so much in...
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Elements of Reasoning
by David A Conway Publisher Comments This text is a concise and lucid introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments. The book serves not only as a text for college courses in argument...
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Abductive Inference
by John R. Josephson Publisher Comments This book analyses abduction as an information-processing phenomenon....
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Logical Papers: A Selection
by Leibniz Synopsis A selection translated and edited with an introduction by G.H.R. Parkinson....
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The Revenge of the Liar: New Essays on the Paradox
by J. C. (edt) Beall Publisher Comments The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in general). A simple Liar sentence like 'This sentence is false' appears to be both true and false if it is either true or false. For if the sentence...
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The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 1, Logic and the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts)
by Norman Kretzmann Publisher Comments This is the first of a three-volume anthology intended as a companion to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Volume 1 is concerned with the logic and the philosophy of language, and comprises fifteen important texts on questions of...
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Thinking about Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic
by Stephen Read Publisher Comments In this book, Stephen Read sets out to rescue logic from its undeserved reputation as an inflexible, dogmatic discipline by demonstrating that its technicalities and processes are founded on assumptions which are themselves amenable to philosophical...
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Thinking with Concepts
by John Wilson Publisher Comments Wilson describes the techniques of conceptual analysis and gives examples of them in action....
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A Treatise on Probability
by John Maynard Keynes Publisher Comments There is, first of all, the distinction between that part of our belief which is rational and that part which is not. If a man believes something for a reason which is preposterous or for no reason at all, and what he believes turns out to be true for...
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The Millenium Writings
by Juanita E. Woods Publisher Comments This book is an endeavor to raise mankind's knowledge concerning his origins and purpose within the universe. Also, that he is not, nor was ever alone in this battle. There were and still are other worldly beings who have watched and assisted throughout...
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Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Volume 9
by Dov M. Gabbay Publisher Comments The ninth volume of the Second Edition contains major contributions on Rewriting Logic as a Logical and Semantic Framework, Logical Frameworks, Proof Theory and Meaning, Goal Directed Deductions, Negations, Completeness and Consistency as well as Logic...
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Formal Philosophy
by Vincent F. Hendricks Publisher Comments Formal Philosophy is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented tosome of the most influential and prominent scholars in formal philosophy....
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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 demonstrates why not....
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