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Stationen. Dem Philosophen und Physiker Moritz Schlick zum 125. Geburtstag (Schlick Studien) (German Edition)
Springer 2009; US$ 79.99Die in den Schlick Studien vereinten Texte sind Ergebnisse der rezenten internationalen Forschung zu Leben und Werk Moritz Schlicks. Ein Schwerpunkt besteht in der Dokumentation und Aufarbeitung des Nachlasses. Die Schlick Studien sind als Ergänzung und Vertiefung der Arbeit an der Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe gedacht und als Reihe auf mehrere Bände... more...
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 25.95Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in which we articulate information. In The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell, with input from his young student Ludwig Wittgenstein, developed the concept and argues for a reformed language... more...
Possibility
Oxford University Press 2009; US$ 26.99Possibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, and starts instead the notion of a physical object and the positing of properties and relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, and proper names. - ;Possibility offers... more...
The Reasons of Love
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 17.95This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Harry Frankfurt writes that it is through caring that we... more...
The Works in Logic by Bosniac Authors in Arabic
BRILL 2008; US$ 134.00Offers and explains the hypothesis that the end of the 13th century does not denote the 'final stage' and the 'stage of decay' of Arabic logic as the 'Aristotelian logic' continues its life and development in the following period in Bosnia and Herzegovina where it had skilled interpreters. more...
The Many Roots of Medieval Logic
BRILL 2007; US$ 95.00Studies whether non-Aristotelian traditions of ancient logic had a role for medieval logicians. This collection includes essays that give attention to Stoic logic and semantics, and to Neoplatonism. more...
The Force of Argument
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 133.00Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle?s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume,... more...
You've Got To Be Kidding!
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical... more...
New Essays on the Knowability Paradox
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 84.99In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. Fitch published this and a generalization of the result in 1963. Ever since, philosophers have been attempting to understand the significance... more...
More Kinds of Being
Wiley 2009; US$ 115.95Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being:A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being Brings many of the original ideas and arguments put forth... more...









