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This Sentence is False
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 100.00Put your neurons through their paces with this lively and engaging introduction to paradoxes. From Buridan’s Ass and the Surprise Examination to The Liar and Sleeping Beauty, This Sentence is False introduces all the key philosophical paradoxes. This fascinating guide to logic and reasoning is packed with puzzles and thought experiments to actively... more...
Finding and Confirming Truth
University Press of America 2010; US$ 27.99In this book, Pletz explains that truth is more than mere affirmation. It also is the conclusion reached when we have effectively confirmed that an assertion accurately depicts the facts that it describes. He also discusses the process used in identifying and verifying factual truth. more...
Essays on Definition
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 158.00This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the relationship between concepts and terms. These essays deal... more...
For the Sake of the Argument
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 64.00This book offers an account of suppositional reasoning relevant to practical deliberation, explanation, prediction and hypothesis testing. more...
The Cunning of Reason
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 44.00This book is a philosophers' attempt to bring together ideas put forward by economists, sociologists and political theorists. The author begins by exploring the economist's assumption that action is rational if it helps to achieve the agent's goals as efficiently as possible. The assumption is explored with the aid of rational-choice theory... more...
Why Is Everyone Else Wrong?
Springer 2010; US$ 39.99Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we hold certain views even as others who are basically like us hold very different ones. Social scientists and other thinkers struggle to explain it, but the puzzle remains - in part because they, too, disagree... more...
Reason and Rationality
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 20.95One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social... more...
Labyrinths of Reason
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.76This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Homo Interrogans
University of Ottawa Press 2001; US$ 14.99Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discourse of questioning and answering. John Bruin examines the "logic" of interrogation and makes the case that intentionality itself has the structure of question and answer. Here, he breaks rank with the better known and more traditional and sets out to... more...
Critical Thinking
Taylor and 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 that should underpin every student?s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes... more...









