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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...
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentationby Douglas Walton; Hans Hansen
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. more...
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousnessby Brian Garrett
Routledge 1998; US$ 125.00The 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...
Logic, Form and Grammarby Peter Long
Routledge 2000; US$ 35.00Three 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$ 44.95This 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...
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...
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...
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...
The Uses of Argumentby Stephen E. Toulmin
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00'In spite of initial criticisms from logicians and fellow philosophers, The Uses of Argument has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion to students of argumentation from all kinds of disciplinary background for more than forty years. ' Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam more...