Logik

Everyday language is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. Thi...

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Nathan L. King's The Excellent Mind considers the importance of the intellectual virtues: the character traits of excellent thinkers. He explains what it means to have an excellent mind: one that is curious, careful, self-reliant, humble, honest, ...

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The main part of the book is a comprehensive overview of the development of fuzzy logic and its applications in various areas of human affair since its genesis in the mid 1960s. This overview is then employed for assessing the significance of fuzz...

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A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death must at the same time resolve the paradox of nonexistence--that there must be something "there" that fails to exist. This is the aim of Palle Yourgrau's Death and Nonexistence, which provides ...

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Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard some proofs as explaining why the theorems being proved do in fact hold. This book pro...

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This volume is the first book length treatment of the elusive and intriguing fourth-century CE philosopher, teacher, and prophet Sosipatra of Pergamum. Through a rich contextualization of the ancient evidence, it presents a lively and engaging por...

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Our experience of objects is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. This, however, is a projection of our senses and thinking. Azzouni shows the resulting austere metaphysics tames many ancient philosophical problem...

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This edited volume explores the previously underacknowledged 'pre-history' of mathematical structuralism, showing that structuralism has deep roots in the history of modern mathematics. The contributors explore this history along two distinct but ...

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Education's Epistemology extends and defends Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking, developing it in both philosophical and educational directions. Of particular note is its emphasis on epistemic quality and epistemic rationality and ...

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Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories and concepts used by scientists. This book addresses both general philosophy of science and specific questions raised by logic, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, cognitive science, linguis...

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A Logical Introduction to Probability and Induction starts with elementary logic and uses it as basis for a philosophical discussion of probability and induction. Throughout the book results are carefully proved using the inference rules introduce...

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This book is both a history of philosophy of logic told from the Kantian viewpoint and a reconstruction of Kant's theory of logic from a historical perspective. Kant's theory represents a turning point in and unique contribution to the never-endin...

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Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosoph...

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Christian theology is monotheistic, but the idea of the trinity problematises this: how can there be one god, but also Father, Son, and Spirit? Jc Beall provides a simple but logically rigorous solution, arguing that the apparent contradictions of...

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This book focuses on the question of how much variation in the properties of an individual object there can be, and if it remains the same object. It investigates competing strategies and engages with foundational questions about the metaphysics o...

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This book develops Tennant's Natural Logicist account of the foundations of the natural, rational, and real numbers. Tennant uses this framework to distinguish the logical from the intuitive aspects of the basic elements of arithmetic.

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This is a volume of unpublished writings by the late David Lewis. It contains two long manuscripts and thirty-one shorter essays covering topics such as causation, freedom of the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and divine...

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This volume presents translations of key writings by the great 19th-century philosopher Bernard Bolzano, on what is now called grounding, a notion of prime importance in metaphysics and philosophy of explanation. These writings, some of them trans...

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This is the first intellectual biography of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. He was an influential critic of idealism and an important forerunner of analytic p...

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Studies the logic of propositional attitudes such as knowledge, belief, and imagination to shed new light on philosophical issues such as dogmatism, skepticism, hyperintensionality, belief revision, and mental simulation.

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Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics.

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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra presents two arguments for the principle that no two objects can differ only numerically. He shows that the principle cannot be reduced to a triviality, and that restricted versions concerning only qualitative propeties f...

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Movements of the Mind addresses the fundamental question of what it is to be an agent. Wayne Wu tackles the phenomenon of mental agency by integrating philosophical and empirical work in an accessible way that illuminates key aspects of mind, such...

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Ren Descartes revolutionized the method of intellectual inquiry. Tarek Dika presents a systematic interpretation and defense of Descartes' method and its efficacy, and demonstrates the fruits of this interpretation applied to metaphysics, optics, ...

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The notions of necessity and possibility, as well as the notion of a possible world, are ubiquitous in philosophy. Nevertheless, these notions remain controversial. This book develops a general framework for theorizing about these notions using th...

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Bounded Meaning develops a new theory of how and why semantic interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Mandelkern provides criticisms of the dominant theory, dynamic semantics, and proposes a new theory...

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A.W. Moore presents a series of essays about the ineliminably anthropocentric nature of a priori thought. He suggests that we humans achieve nothing of real significance in philosophy, ethics, or mathematics except from a human point of view, and ...

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Phronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers and psychologists for millennia. In this book Kristjn Kristjnsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in...

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Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity--- certain kinds of argument a...

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Jill North offers answers to questions at the heart of the project of interpreting physics. How do we figure out the nature of the world from a mathematically formulated theory? What do we infer about the world when a physical theory can be mathem...

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