Logic category: 1296 books
by Rafik A Aliev, Oleg H Huseynov
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Every day decision making in complex human-centric systems are characterized by imperfect decision-relevant information. The principal problems with the existing decision theories are that they do not have capability to deal with situations in which probabilities and events are imprecise. In this...
Logic from Kant to Russell
Laying the Foundations for Analytic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The scope and method of logic as we know it today eminently reflect the ground-breaking developments of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century. Unfortunately, little effort has been made to understand the idiosyncrasies of the philosophical context that...
by Susan Haack
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1978
The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful...
Fuzzy Logic and Applications
12th International Workshop, WILF 2018, Genoa, Italy, September 6–7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2018, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2018.
The 17 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are...
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by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
There is as great diversity among authors in the modes which they have adopted of defining logic, as in their treatment of the details of it. This is what might naturally be expected on any subject on which writers have availed themselves of the same language as a means of delivering different ideas....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This book explores the results of applying empirical methods to the philosophy of logic and mathematics. Much of the work that has earned experimental philosophy a prominent place in twenty-first century philosophy is concerned with ethics or epistemology. But, as this book shows, empirical methods...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
Matthew K. Minerd Ph.D. considers the issue of ens rationis (mind-dependent being) through a sequence of vignettes, starting with Aristotle (5372-5452 U0’: Ubaid Zero Prime) and Avicenna (6780-6837), proceeding through Thomas Aquinas (7025-7074) and Hervaeus Natalis (7055-7123), and ending with...
Logic as a Tool
A Guide to Formal Logical Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Written in a clear, precise and user-friendly style, Logic as a Tool: A Guide to Formal Logical Reasoning is intended for undergraduates in both mathematics and computer science, and will guide them to learn, understand and master the use of classical logic as a tool for doing correct reasoning. It...
Being Logical
A Guide to Good Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
An essential tool for our post-truth world: a witty primer on logic—and the dangers of illogical thinking—by a renowned Notre Dame professor
Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Beinglogical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments...
by Hilary Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not reference...
Proofs and Algorithms
An Introduction to Logic and Computability
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Logic is a branch of philosophy, mathematics and computer science. It studies the required methods to determine whether a statement is true, such as reasoning and computation.
Proofs and Algorithms: Introduction to Logic and Computability is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of contemporary...
by Robert M. Exner, Myron F. Rosskopf
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This applications-related introductory treatment explores facets of modern symbolic logic useful in the exposition of elementary mathematics. The authors convey the material in a manner accessible to those trained in standard elementary mathematics but lacking any formal background in logic.
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Alternative Action Theory
Simultaneously a Critique of Georg Henrik von Wright’s Practical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is connected...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Taken from his lecture notes on his introductory course on logic, Kant's philosophies in "Logic" describe his thoughts on the mental process and how it should be applied in life. Kant never set out to write a book on the subject, but his graduate student Gottlob Jaesche gathered his mentor's lecture...