Logic category: 1296 books
Developments in Language Theory
21st International Conference, DLT 2017, Liège, Belgium, August 7-11, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2017, held in Liège, Belgium, in August 2017.The 24 full papers and 6 (abstract of) invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover the following...
Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
14th Annual Conference, TAMC 2017, Bern, Switzerland, April 20-22, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2017, held in Bern, Switzerland, in April 2017.
The 45 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
20th International Conference, FOSSACS 2017, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017, Uppsala, Sweden, April 22-29, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017.
The...
Critical Thinking
An Appeal to Reason
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student’s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers...
Critical Thinking
An Introduction to Reasoning Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right?
For anyone tackling philosophical logic and critical thinking for the first time, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning...
by Michael Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus’...
Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism
Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book presents a remarkable diversity of contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics from a psychological perspective. It considers the history and philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science,...
From Truth to Reality
New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent...
Denying Existence
The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his 'Alice' books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Yet, whilst lauded for his work in children's fiction and his pioneering work in the world of Victorian photography, his everyday...
The Poverty of Conceptual Truth
Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The Poverty of Conceptual Truth is based on a simple idea. Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments underwrites a powerful argument against the metaphysical program of his Leibnizian-Wolffian predecessors—an argument from fundamental limits on its expressive power. In that tradition,...
Vague Objects and Vague Identity
New Essays on Ontic Vagueness
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness. It seeks to answer core questions pertaining to onticism, the view that vagueness exists in the world itself. The questions to be addressed include whether vague objects must have...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
This volume presents a selection of papers reflecting key theoretical issues in argumentation theory. Its six sections are devoted to specific themes, including the analysis and evaluation of argumentation, argument schemes and the contextual embedding of argumentation. The section on general perspectives...
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems.
With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports...