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Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 200.00Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information,... more...
How to Think About the Great Ideas
Open Court 2000; US$ 29.95Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature,... more...
Philosophy from a Skeptical Perspective
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 21.00Advocates a skeptical position of philosophy and discusses its practical applications in science, ethics, aesthetics, and politics. more...
Symbolic Logic
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 64.99Brimming with visual examples of concepts, derivation rules, and proof strategies, this introductory text is ideal for students with no previous experience in logic. Students will learn translation both from formal language into English and from English into formal language; how to use truth trees and truth tables to test propositions for logical properties;... more...
Epistemology and the Regress Problem
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason?s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons to believe something, one must have good reason to... more...
Inference from Signs
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 40.00James Allen presents an original and penetrating investigation of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. Allen masters a broad range of ancient texts, discussing Aristotle, the Sceptics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, to provide the first comprehensive treatment of his topic.... more...
Cognitive Reasoning
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99Dealing with uncertainty, moving from ignorance to knowledge, is the focus of cognitive processes. Understanding these processes and modelling, designing, and building artificial cognitive systems have long been challenging research problems. This book describes the theory and methodology of a new, scientifically well-founded general approach, and... more...
Thinking through Error
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 54.99Thinking through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge argues that there is a positive view of error. Making errors does not only mean that we?ve done something wrong, but also that we ?more or less unaware? are given a chance to find something new and true. Trying to avoid errors is a social request, but it is uncertainty that has a liberating... more...
Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 24.00A title on the foundations of defeasible logic which explores the formal properties of everyday reasoning patterns, whereby people jump to conclusions reserving the right to retract them in the light of further information. Although technical in nature, it contains sections that outline basic issues through intuitive and simple examples. more...









