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Logical Pluralism
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 39.99Logical Pluralism presents a challenge to the proponents of alternative logic, and even to classical logicians who find alternative logics interestingly mistaken. In a short book, the authors not only raise deep issues, they also provide neat thumbnail sketches of a range of logics...theirs is a challenge that must be met, and meeting it adequately... more...
Content and Modality
Clarendon Press 2006; US$ 98.99Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major... more...
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...
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...
Five Metaphysical Paradoxes
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 15.00The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy. Howard Kainz studied Greek, Latin, and Philosophy at the University of California and at Loyola University, Los Angeles (BA). After an MA in the History of Philosophy at St. Louis University, he finished his PhD at Duquesne University, specializing in 19th Century German Philosophy. He was an Assistant Professor at... more...
The Philosopher's Toolkit
Wiley 2010; US$ 21.95The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic... more...









