Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy – serie
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The Nature of Necessity
Häftad, 1978
986 kr
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This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth …
The Scientific Image
Häftad, 1980
722 kr
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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.
Logic on the Track of Social Change
Av David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
913 kr
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The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing …
Without Good Reason
The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Av Edward Stein
Inbunden, 1996
2260 kr
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Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational--we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But …
Pluralism
Against the Demand for Consensus
Häftad, 1995
1243 kr
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Nicholas Rescher presents a critical reaction against two currently influential tendencies of thought. On the one hand, he rejects the facile relativism that pervades contemporary social and academic life. On the other hand, he opposes the rationalism inherent in new-contractarian theory - both in …
A Model of the Universe
Space-Time, Probability, and Decision
Häftad, 1996
620 kr
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Storrs McCall presents an original philosophical theory of the nature of the universe based on a striking new model of its space-time structure. He shows how his model illuminates a broad range of subjects, including causation, probability, quantum mechanics, identity, and free will, and argues …
Sensory Qualities
Av Austen Clark
Häftad, 1996
986 kr
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Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of sensory qualities - of how things look, feel, or seem to a perceiving subject. To provide such an explanation, one would need to explain qualitative facts in non-qualitative terms. Attempts to construct such explanations …
Truth, Fiction, and Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Av Peter Lamarque, Stein Haugom Olsen
Häftad, 1996
1345 kr
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This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is important …
Without Good Reason
The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Av Edward Stein
Häftad, 1997
691 kr
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Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But …
Critical Scientific Realism
Inbunden, 1999
1298 kr
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Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys the different varieties of realism …
Slippery Slope Arguments
Inbunden, 1992
2003 kr
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A `slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will be unable to extricate yourself, and that eventually you will end up speeding ever faster towards some disastrous …
Sensory Qualities
Av Austen Clark
Inbunden, 1993
1225 kr
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Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of sensory qualities - of how things look, feel or seem to a perceiving subject. To do so one would need to be able to explain qualitative facts in non-qualitative terms, and attempts to construct such an explanation seem …
A Model of the Universe
Space-Time, Probability, and Decision
Inbunden, 1994
1151 kr
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Storrs McCall presents an original philosophical theory of the nature of the universe based on a striking new model of its space-time structure. He shows that this theory can illuminate a wide variety of hitherto unresolved philosophical problems. These include: the direction and flow of time; the …
Metaphor
Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure
Häftad, 1990
1148 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating the cognitive contribution of metaphor. Metaphor effects a transference of meaning, not between two terms, but between two structured domains of content, or 'semantic fields'. Semantic fields, construed as necessary to a theory of …
Truth, Probability and Paradox
Studies in Philosophical Logic
Av J. L. Mackie
Inbunden, 1972
1555 kr
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Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.
Experiences
An Inquiry into Some Ambiguities
Av J. M. Hinton
Inbunden, 1973
791 kr
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Someone who has more sympathy with traditional empiricism than with much of present-day philosophy may ask himself: 'How do my experiences give rise to my beliefs about an external world, and to what extent do they justify them?' He wants to refer, among other things, to unremarkable experiences, …
Simplicity
Inbunden, 1975
2810 kr
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Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.
The Emergence of Norms
Inbunden, 1977
2044 kr
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This book provides an account of the emergence of norms. Put very crudely, the main thesis of this book is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in the structure (in the …
The Probable and the Provable
Inbunden, 1977
2123 kr
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The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can …
Divine Commands and Moral Requirements
Inbunden, 1978
2167 kr
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In this wide-ranging study, Quinn argues that human moral autonomy is compatible with unqualified obedience to divine commands. He formulates several versions of the crucial assumptions of divine command ethics, defending them against a battery of objections often expressed in the philosophical …
Ignorance
A Case for Scepticism
Av Peter Unger
Häftad, 1978
652 kr
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In this controversial volume (originally published in 1975) Peter Unger suggests that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have a reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot have any realistic emotional ties: it can never be conclusively said that someone …
Works and Worlds of Art
Inbunden, 1980
2306 kr
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In this book the author treats art as an action performed by the artist as agent, rather than examining it from the point of view of its audience as contemplators.
The Diversity of Moral Thinking
Av Neil Cooper
Inbunden, 1980
1536 kr
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This book argues for a radically different approach to traditional and important problems of moral philosophy. The book discusses three theses; the diversity of moralities and moral judgements, their normativesness, and their possible rationality.
Quality and Concept
Inbunden, 1982
1225 kr
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The aim of this book is to provide a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs). The author explores the two traditional conceptions of PRPs and shows how they can be captured by a single theory.
What is Existence?
Inbunden, 1981
2444 kr
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A thorough and closely argued examination of a central issue in philosophical logic, an issue which is shown to have profound implications for the philosophy of language and much of metaphysics.
Philosophy without Ambiguity
A Logico-Linguistic Essay
Inbunden, 1989
2444 kr
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In this book, a set of problems which overlap philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence are examined from the point of view of Chomsky's linguistics. The author uses linguistic analysis to shed new light on the philosophical and logical problems of meaning, …
The Cement of the Universe
A Study of Causation
Av J. L. Mackie
Häftad, 1980
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
968 kr
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Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to …
Anti-Realism and Logic
Truth as Eternal
Av Neil Tennant
Inbunden, 1987
2589 kr
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Anti-realism is a doctrine about logic, language, and meaning with roots in the work of Wittgenstein and Frege. In this book, the author clarifies Dummett's case for anti-realism and develops his arguments further. He concludes by advocating a radical reform of our logical practices.
Blindspots
Inbunden, 1988
3269 kr
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In 1942 G.E. Moore first wrote about the curious sort of 'nonsense' exhibited by the statement 'it is raining but I do not believe it'. What Moore discovered was a species of blindspots: consistent propositions that cannot be rationally accepted by certain individuals even though they might be …
The Emergence of Norms
Häftad, 2015
435 kr
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Edna Ullmann-Margalit provides an original account of the emergence of norms. Her main thesis is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in the structure (in the game-theoretical …
