Philosophy : Logic

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking. more...

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Philosophy and Mystification is an extraordinary meta-philosophical work that boldly tackles a series of particular problems in philosophy as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of and point of philosophy itself. more...

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Features essays that deal with theoretical issues in the study of argumentation. Because most of the perspectives on argumentation that are en vogue are represented, this volume provides a multidisciplinary - and as far as different approaches are combined even interdisciplinary - outlook on the state of affairs in argumentation theory. more...

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Contains essays that survey the various approaches to preference change developed in the social sciences and in philosophy. This work reviews standard material, including the neoclassical preference model and doxastic preference change, time preferences and the debate over policy evaluation under preference change. more...

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Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role. - ;Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role. Quantifiers in Language and Logic is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basic. knowledge of linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. - ;This book gives a comprehensive account of quantifiers in both natural and formal languages, drawing on both linguistics and model theory. It creates a number of paradigms, because nothing so general has been attempted before. Much of the material is new or has never appeared in book form, but the authors have taken enormous care to pitch their exposition at a level that non-specialists can follow. - Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary University of London;This is a high-quality, i more...

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