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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...
If P, Then Q
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 45.95This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years. more...
Modality
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 84.99The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions--are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the... more...
Doubt Truth to be a Liar
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 37.99Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of philosophy. Doubt Truth to Be a Liar explores these implications for truth, rationality, negation, and the nature of logic, and develops further the defence... more...
Games, Norms and Reasons
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. This book continues a series called "Logic at the Crossroads" whose title reflects a view that the deep... more...
Putting Logic in its Place
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 38.99What role, if any, does formal logic play in characterizing epistemically rational belief? Traditionally, belief is seen in a binary way - either one believes a proposition, or one doesn't. Given this picture, it is attractive to impose certain deductive constraints on rational belief: that one's beliefs be logically consistent, and that one... more...
Fundamental Uncertainty
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 115.00This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions explore the premises and implications of plausible reasoning when probabilities are non-measurable or unknown, and when the space of possible events is only partially identified. more...









