Logic
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Boethius's in Ciceronis Topica: An Annotated Translation of a Medieval Dialectical TextIn Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works present Boethius's theory of the art of discovering arguments, a theory that was highly influential in the history of medieval logic. Eleonore Stump here presents the...
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Seditions: Heidegger and the Limit of ModernityThis is the first book-length work by Heribert Boeder to appear in English. The essays brought together here, several of which are to be found only in this volume, bear witness to a new perspective on metaphysics, modernity, and so-called postmodernity. The "seditiousness" of...
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Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and RevelationThe author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.Author: Sissela BokPublisher: VintagePublished: 12/17/1989Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.03h x...
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A System of LogisticAuthor: Willard Van Orman QuinePublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 04/16/2014Pages: 214Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9780674431652About the AuthorQuine W. V. W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard...
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From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for the first time. Modern logic, heralded by Leibniz, may be said to have been initiated by Boole, De Morgan,...
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CounterfactualsCounterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.Author: LewisPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 01/05/2001Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.52h x 6.32w...
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Wittgenstein Meaning MindThis third volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers sections 243-427, which constitute the heart of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The thirteen essays cover all the major themes of this part of...
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Informal Logic: A Pragmatic ApproachInformal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear,...
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Computational Complexity: A Conceptual PerspectiveThis book offers a comprehensive perspective to modern topics in complexity theory, which is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science. It addresses the looming question of what can be achieved within a limited amount of time with or without other...
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Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal JudgmentIs the science of moral cognition usefully modeled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate "moral grammar" that causes them to analyze human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyze human...
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Introduction to Lattices and OrderOrdered structures have been increasingly recognized in recent years due to an explosion of interest in theoretical computer science and all areas of discrete mathematics. This book covers areas such as ordered sets and lattices. A key feature of ordered sets, one which is...
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Conceptual MathematicsIn the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics, Second Edition, introduces the concept of 'category' for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to both beginning students and...
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Alfred Tarski: Life and LogicAlfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy, linguistics and computer science....
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The Principles of Mathematics RevisitedThis book, written by one of philosophy's preeminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change. Jaakko Hintikka proposes a new basic first-order logic and uses it to explore the foundations...
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Breakdown of WillAinslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. This perspective helps us...
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In Defense of Pure Reason: A Rationalist Account of a Priori JustificationThis book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason without any dependence on sensory experience. Most recent philosophers reject the view and argue that all substantive...
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The Logic of ProvabilityThis book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic...
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A Structuralist Theory of LogicProfessor Koslow advances a new account of the basic concepts of logic. A central feature of the theory is that it does not require the elements of logic to be based on a formal language. Rather, it uses a general notion of implication as...
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Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and MethodProfessor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals...
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Write Your Own Proofs: In Set Theory and Discrete MathematicsWritten by a pair of math teachers and based on their classroom notes and experiences, this introductory treatment of theory, proof techniques, and related concepts is designed for undergraduate courses. No knowledge of calculus is assumed, making it a useful text for students at...
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