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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...
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...
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...
Giving Reasons
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order... more...
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 98.00It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being ?irrelevant?. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics and relatedness logics, are juxtaposed against conversational... more...
The Priority of Events
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 104.00This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism. more...
The Myth of the Closed Mind
Open Court 2011; US$ 49.95?It?s like talking to a brick wall? and ?We?ll have to agree to disagree? are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument. It?s often claimed that some people?fundamentalists or fanatics?are indeed sealed off from rational criticism. And every month new pop... more...
Logik
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2012; US$ 4.94Hauptbeschreibung Wir können nicht nicht denken. Aber wie denken wir eigentlich? Dieser Ratgeber macht, spannend und verständlich, mit den Begriffen des Denkens und der Logik vertraut. Lernen Sie mehr über logisches Schließen und lassen Sie sich zum Weiterdenken inspirieren. Wer logisch denkt und argumentiert, kann Gesprächspartner wirkungsvoller... more...
Linguistische Überlegungen zu einer Theorie der Argumentation
De Gruyter 1979; US$ 126.00Linguistische Überlegungen zu einer Theorie der Argumentation (Linguistische Arbeiten) more...









