Logic category: 1296 books
by Howie Junkie
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
From the Desk of the How-To Junkie for the "Critical Thinking Junkie":
Howdy friend, who wants "to develop critical thinking,"
In the old days where famous Greek philosophers - like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - would conglomerate in the public square Agora of...
Making Your Mind Matter
Strategies for Increasing Practical Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Making Your Mind Matter is a practical guide to effective thinking in college and in everyday life. Critical thinking guru Vincent Ryan Ruggiero explains how and why the mind has been neglected in American education, then teaches readers how to take charge of their own mental development. Ruggiero...
Descartes' Error
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude...
by Edmund Husserl
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.
This is the first time both volumes have been available...
Peirce on Signs
Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as...
To Know or Not to Know
Beyond Realism and Anti-Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
l. THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF EPISTEMOLOGY There is a philosophical issue that surely precedes all other possible questions. It concerns the very possibility of our thinking about some thing to some purpose. Short of this no philosophy, theory or research would be possible. But it is not immediately...
by Savyuan Hood
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
This piece is about our Generation that I am confined to. A mere child that walks though society where it is nothing but corruption seen, he takes his mind into a creative perspective for you, so the child can tell a story about the trials and tribulations of people who struggle in this lifetime....
by Galen A. Foresman, Peter S. Fosl, Jamie C. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.
Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring...
Beyond Atheism, Beyond God
The Quest for Transcendent Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In his new study, Beyond Atheism, Beyond God, author Philip A. Stahl uses atheism as a rational stepping stone to arrive at an emergent conception of the universe, exposing features that might be described as transcendent.
He presents an impersonal approach to Being that is devoid of any specific...
Mathematics and the Mind
An Introduction into Ibn Sīnā’s Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This book examines how epistemology was reinvented by Ibn Sīnā, an influential philosopher-scientist of the classical Islamic world who was known to the West by the Latinised name Avicenna. It explains his theory of knowledge in which intentionality acts as an interaction between the mind and the...
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
In this highly absorbing work, Balaguer demonstrates that no good arguments exist either for or against mathematical platonism-for example, the view that abstract mathematical objects do exist and that mathematical theories are descriptions of such objects. Balaguer does this by establishing that...
A Reasonable Response
Answers to Tough Questions on God, Christianity, and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Followers of Jesus need not fear hard questions or objections against Christian belief. In A Reasonable Response, renowned Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig offers dozens of examples of how some of the most common challenges to Christian thought can be addressed, including:
Why...
by Douglas Walton
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political,...
Critical Reasoning and Philosophy
A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Critical Reasoning & Philosophy has been praised as an innovative and clearly written handbook that teaches new philosophy students how to read, evaluate, and write in a critical manner. Concise, accessible language and ample use of examples and study modules help students gain the basic knowledge...