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Walking the Tightrope of Reason
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 21.99Robert Fogelin'se mediation on the paradox of logic and reasoning leads us through the history of ideas, lightly touching on the Greeks, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein, and its current form in the debates called "the culture wars". In the end, he says, knowledge is possible, if we adjust our sense of the limits of reason. more...
Truth
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 13.99A distinguished philosopher illuminates the age-old war over truth between one side that believes in plain, unvarnished facts and the other side that believes that judgment is clouded with false notions of absolute truth, in an exploration of the long-standing philosophical battle. more...
One Hundred Years of Russell´s Paradox
De Gruyter 2004; US$ 293.00The papers collected in this volume represent the main body of research arising from the International Munich Centenary Conference in 2001, which commemorated the discovery of the famous Russell Paradox a hundred years ago. The 31 contributions and the introductory essay by the editor were (with two exceptions) all originally written for the volume.... more...
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00An introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, through accessible, everyday examples. more...
Arguing on the Toulmin Model
Springer 2007; US$ 199.99Toulmin's model has been appropriated and adapted by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This book provides information on the Toulmin model and its appropriation. It talks about the developments in the theory of argument, typology of warrants, comprehensive theory of defeaters, and more. more...
Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2007; US$ 79.99This book presents biologically inspired walking machines interacting with their physical environment. It describes how the designs of the morphology and the behavior control of walking machines can benefit from biological studies. The purpose of this book is to develop a modular structure of neural control generating different reactive behaviors of... more...
Paradoxes from A to Z
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 25.95This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship and the Prisoners' Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse... more...
A Brief History of the Paradox
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 19.99Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox. more...
Anatomy of Judgment
University of Minnesota Press 1986; US$ 57.00The Anatomy of Judgment was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "The Anatomy of Judgment is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of the social and humanistic... more...
Media Argumentation
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00Presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives. more...









