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A Rulebook for Argumentsby Anthony Weston
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 6.95A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer?translated into eight languages?remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. more...
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentationby Douglas Walton; Hans Hansen
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Fundamentals 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, and ethical arguments are analyzed. more...
Philosophical Theories of Probabilityby Donald Gillies
Routledge 2000; US$ 45.95The use of probability and statistics has increased dramatically in all fields of research. This book presents an account of the resultant philosophical theories of probability and explains how they relate to one another. more...
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousnessby Brian Garrett
Routledge 1998; US$ 125.00The first book of its kind to bring together the many different topics that surround the issue of personal identity. Brian Garrett makes an important contribution to the philosophy of personal identity and mind, and to epistemology. more...
Paradoxes from A to Zby Michael Clark
Routledge 2002; US$ 21.95'This sentence is false'. Is it? If a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is fully occupied, can it still accommodate a new guest? How can we have emotional responses to fiction, when we know that the objects of our emotions do not exist? more...
Logic, Form and Grammarby Peter Long
Routledge 2000; US$ 35.00Three important essays concerned with logical form as it applies to hypotheticals and to propositions. Provides clear thinking philosophical explanations and overturns many unchallenged suggestions in philosophical logic. more...
Deducibility and Decidabilityby R. R. Rockingham Gill
Routledge 1990; US$ 150.00The works of Gödel, Tarski, Kleene and Church are fundamental to our understanding of the foundations of mathematics. In Deducibility and Decidability , their results and significance are presented in a new, unified manner. more...
New Introduction to Modal Logicby G.E. Hughes; M.J. Cresswell
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95This entirely new work guides the reader through the most basic systems of modal propositional logic up to systems of modal predicate with identity, dealing with both technical developments and discussing philosophical applications. more...
Vaguenessby Timothy Williamson
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95When did Rembrandt get old? Such questions eventually lead us to the problem of vagueness. Williamson traces its history, questions conventional theories and defends the realist view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance. more...
Introduction to Probability for Philosophersby D.H. Mellor
Routledge 2005; US$ 32.95An Introduction to Probability for Philosophers presents the basic concepts of probability to philosophy students who are coming to this area of the subject for the first time, keeping the technicalities to a minimum. more...