Logic category: 1296 books
Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
12th Annual Conference, TAMC 2015, Singapore, May 18-20, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2014, held in Singapore, in May 2015. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers treat all topics relating...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;"...
Descartes's Legacy
Mind and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley. The authors of Descartes's Legacy:...
Modern Philosophy
An Introduction and Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to simulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of the field, from the philosophy of logic to aesthetics, and in so doing provides us with an essential and comprehensive guide to modern thinking.
The Vienna Circle
The Origins of Neo-Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Join original Vienna Circle member Victor Kraft in his discussion of the movement for an exclusive insider’s view of this important point in philosophical history. In this in-depth philosophical study, Victor Kraft explores the role the Vienna Circle had on the international philosophical movement....
by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863.
The eldest son...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Topics (Greek: Τοπικά; Latin: Topica) is the name given to one of Aristotle's six works on logic collectively known as the Organon. The other five are:
Categories
De Interpretatione
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analytics
On Sophistical Refutations
The Topics constitutes Aristotle's...
by Immanuel Kant,John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and...
by Henri Poincaré
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Nontechnical essays on hypothesis in physical theory, concept of number, magnitude, force, intuition vs. logic, more. Chapters include "On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning," "Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment," "Non-Euclidean Geometries," "Space and Geometry," "Experiment and Geometry," The Classical...
Set Theory
With an Introduction to Real Point Sets
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians such as Dedekind and Cantor gave birth to set theory. This textbook presents classical set theory in an intuitive but concrete manner.
To...
Fuzzy Neural Networks for Real Time Control Applications
Concepts, Modeling and Algorithms for Fast Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
AN INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE FOR ALL THOSE WHO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT TYPE-1 AND TYPE-2 FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS IN REAL TIME SYSTEMS
Delve into the type-2 fuzzy logic systems and become engrossed in the parameter update algorithms for type-1 and type-2 fuzzy neural networks and their stability analysis...
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
23rd International Conference, CP 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August 28 – September 1, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia from August 28, 2017 until September 1, 2017. The conference is colocated with the 20th International Conference...
Insurmountable Simplicities
Thirty-Nine Philosophical Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this."
So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles...
Set Theory
Exploring Independence and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This textbook gives an introduction to axiomatic set theory and examines the prominent questions that are relevant in current research in a manner that is accessible to students. Its main theme is the interplay of large cardinals, inner models, forcing and descriptive set theory.
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