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The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics
Springer 2011; US$ 149.99The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to call themselves 'antirealists'. Others persisted with the formal background... more...
Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900
BRILL 2010; US$ 168.00Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this problem by logicians writing in Arabic from the ninth to the nineteenth century. It shows that that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. more...
Man of Reason
Routledge 1993; US$ 35.95This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984. more...
Multiple-Conclusion Logic
Cambridge University Press 1978; US$ 49.00This is a sustained study of the subject and is certain to stimulate further research. more...
The Logic of Provability
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 53.00Boolos, a pre-eminent philosopher of mathematics, investigates the relationship between provability and modal logic. more...
Epistemologische Fiktionen
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00This monograph investigates the relationship between literature and science against the background of the functional differentiation of modern society. Using examples from different linguistic areas? French (Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Houellebecq), German (Goethe, Freud, Musil), Italian (Vico, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino,... more...
Saving Truth From Paradox
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 44.99Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the G--ouml--;del incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches.... more...
Modality and Tense
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 41.99Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus... more...
Contradictio est regula veri
Felix Meiner Verlag 2011; US$ 138.03Hauptbeschreibung Ziel dieser grundlegenden Untersuchung ist eine Bestimmung dessen, was Logik ist und prinzipiell zu leisten vermag. Der Autor konfrontiert in seiner Arbeit drei Typen von Logik miteinander: die moderne formale Logik, die transzendentale Logik Fichtes und die spekulative Logik Hegels. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht dabei jeweils... more...
Regulae ad directionem ingenii. Cogitationes privatae
Felix Meiner Verlag 2011; US$ 40.98Hauptbeschreibung Diese Ausgabe enthält mit den "Regulae ad directionem ingenii" und den sachlich korrespondierenden "Cogitationes privatae" zwei frühe Texte Descartes' aus der Zeit von 1619 bis 1628; erstere in einer völlig neuen, letztere erstmalig in einer deutschen Übersetzung. Grundlage für die Wiedergabe des lateinischen Textes der Regulae... more...









