Category Archives: Logic

Phenomenology and Mathematics (Phaenomenologica)

During Edmund Husserl’s lifetime, modern logic and mathematics rapidly developed toward their current outlook and Husserl’s writings can be fruitfully compared and contrasted with both 19th century figures (Boole, Schröder, Weierstrass) as well as the 20th century characters (Heyting, Zermelo, … Continue reading

Posted in Format, History & Surveys, Logic, pdf | Leave a comment

Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. When we describe someone as “tall,” for example, it is as though there is a particular height beyond which a person can be considered “tall.” In this stimulating book, Kees Van … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology, Format, Logic, Neural Networks, pdf | Leave a comment

By Parallel Reasoning

By Parallel Reasoning is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of analogical reasoning in more than forty years designed to formulate and justify standards for the critical evaluation of analogical arguments. It proposes a normative theory with special focus on the … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Logic, pdf | Leave a comment

Handbook of Set Theory

This handbook is the definitive compendium of the methods, results, and current initiatives in modern set theory in all its research directions. Set theory has entered its prime as an advanced and autonomous field of mathematics with foundational significance, and … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Logic, pdf | Leave a comment

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Logic, Nonfiction, pdf | Leave a comment

Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Logic and Language

Discussion of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the “resolute” reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn’s principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative … Continue reading

Posted in Format, History & Surveys, Linguistics, Logic, Metaphysics, pdf | Leave a comment

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide

Reviews of earlier editions: ‘This concise guide offers relevant, rigorous and approachable methods…The authors focus on analysing and assessing arguments in a thoughtfully structured series of chapters, with clear definitions, a glossary, plenty of examples and some useful exercises.’ Will … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Logic, Nonfiction, pdf | Leave a comment

Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness: Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules (Argumentation Library)

In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Linguistics, Logic, Nonfiction, Reference, Social Sciences, pdf | Leave a comment

Rethinking Popper (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

In September 2007, more than 100 philosophers came to Prague with the determination to approach Karl Popper’s philosophy as a source of inspiration in many areas of our intellectual endeavor. This volume is a result of that effort. Topics cover … Continue reading

Posted in Epistemology, Ethics, Format, Logic, pdf | Leave a comment

The Development of Modern Logic

This edited volume presents a comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the twentieth century. In addition to a history of symbolic logic, the contributors also examine developments in the philosophy of logic and … Continue reading

Posted in Format, Logic, pdf | Leave a comment