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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...
Critical Thinkingby Peg Tittle
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 59.95In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason , Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation ? skills that should underpin every student?s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument rather than with the pitfalls to avoid, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes chapters on the nature and structure of argument, the role of relevance, truth and generalizations, and the subtleties of verbal and visual language. Throughout the text there are numerous sample arguments from books, journals, magazines, television and the internet for students to analyze. With an interactive companion website and a comprehensive... more...
Man of Reasonby Genevieve Lloyd
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...
Logic, Form and Grammarby Peter Long
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95Three 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...
New Introduction to Modal Logicby G.E. Hughes; M.J. Cresswell
Routledge 1996; US$ 48.95This 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...
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousnessby Brian Garrett
Routledge 1998; US$ 130.00The 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...
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...
Thought and Worldby Christopher Hill; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy; John Haldane; Gilbert Harman; Frank Jackson; William G. Lucan
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00The author presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. He represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality. more...
Paraconsistencyby Walter Carnielli; Marcelo Esteban Coniglio; Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 229.95This title represents an integrated discussion of all major topics in the area of paraconsistent logic, highlighting philosophical and historical aspects, major developments and real-world applications. more...









