Logic category: 1296 books
by Mark Textor
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language.
Frege’s writings are difficult and deal...
Mind, Meaning and Mathematics
Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
At the turn of the century, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl both participated in the discussion concerning the foundations of logic and mathematics. Since the 1960s, comparisons have been made between Frege's semantic views and Husserl's theory of intentional acts. In quite recent years, new approaches...
Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics
Horizons of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
This volume commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel (1906–78), most famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of first-order logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency - with the other widely accepted axioms of set theory - of the axiom of choice...
Freedom and Enforcement in Action
A Study in Formal Action Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Action theory is the object of growing attention in a variety of scientific disciplines and this is the first volume to offer a synthetic view of the range of approaches possible in the topic. The volume focuses on the nexus of formal action theory with a startlingly diverse set of subjects, which...
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good! Will you buy this book?. Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative. Logic has made some men rich. Inside this book you will learn of John Eck (who debated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dag Prawitz and his outstanding contributions to philosophical and mathematical logic. Prawitz's eminent contributions to structural proof theory, or general proof theory, as he calls it, and inference-based meaning theories have been extremely influential in the...
On Preserving
Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
Paraconsistent logic is a theory of reasoning in philosophy that studies inconsistent data. The discipline has several different schools of thought, including preservationism, which responds to the problems that arise when human beings continue to reason when faced with inconsistent data. On Preserving...
Logical Form
Between Logic and Natural Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This...
by Irad Kimhi
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought—those that explicate how we in fact think—must be distinguished from logical laws of thought—those that...
Forms of Thought
A Study in Philosophical Logic
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional...
Formal Languages in Logic
A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the...
The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays
Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
I was very happy when in 1997 Fiachra Long came to spend part of his sabbatical leave at the Archives Maurice Blondel at Louvain-Ia-Neuve. This allowed him to bring together and complete his translation of three important articles from Maurice Blondel, known as the philosopher of Aix-en-Province....
Basic Discrete Mathematics
Logic, Set Theory, and Probability
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This lively introductory text exposes the student in the humanities to the world of discrete mathematics. A problem-solving based approach grounded in the ideas of George Pólya are at the heart of this book. Students learn to handle and solve new problems on their own. A straightforward, clear writing...
by Barnaby Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Few mathematical results capture the imagination like Georg Cantor's groundbreaking work on infinity in the late nineteenth century. This opened the door to an intricate axiomatic theory of sets which was born in the decades that followed. Written for the motivated novice, this book provides an overview...