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Cambridge University Press The Fixation of Belief and its Undoing
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Cambridge University Press Creating Modern Probability
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Cambridge University Press Aristotles Modal Logic
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Cambridge University Press Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Provability
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Cambridge University Press ArnauldNicole Logic Art Thinking Logic or the Art of Thinking Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Towards Justice and Virtue
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Cambridge University Press For the Sake of the Argument
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Cambridge University Press Aristotles Modal Logic
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Reason
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Carnap Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Thinking Strategically
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Peirce
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Cambridge University Press Abductive Inference
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Peirce Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Papers in Philosophical Logic
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Cambridge University Press Papers in Philosophical Logic Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. It will serve as an important reference tool for all philosophers and their students.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Adverbs of quantification; 2. Index, context, and content; 3. 'Whether' report; 4. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities; 5. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II; 6. Intensional logics without iterative axioms; 7. Ordering semantics and premise semantics for Counterfactuals; 8. Logic for equivocators; 9. Relevant implication; 10. Statements partly about observation; 11. Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?; 12. Analog and digital; 13. Lucas against mechanism; 14. Lucas against mechanism II; 15. Policing the Aufbau; 16. Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges); 17. Nominalistic set theory; 18. Mathematics is megethology; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Making Choices
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Cambridge University Press Equilibrium and Rationality
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Cambridge University Press Creating Modern Probability
Book SynopsisThis is the only book to chart the history and development of modern probability theory, showing how in the first thirty years of this century probability theory became a mathematical science.Trade Review'… von Plato has consulted and drawn on a substantial body of archival material: letters, unpublished manuscripts, and drafts of later-published papers. Thus his book does not just (as is sometimes the case) simply revisit the standard chestnuts of the field, but substantially adds to our knowledge of them … In sum, this is a welcome addition to the literature: timely, informed, and technically competent.' IsisTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Pathways to modern probability; 3. Probability in statistical physics; 4. Quantum mechanical probability and indeterminism; 5. Classical embeddings of probability and chance; 6. Von Mises' frequentist probabilities; 7. Kolmogorov's measure theoretic probabilities; 8. De Finetti's subjective probabilities; Supplement: Nicole Oresme and the ergodicity of rotations; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics
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Cambridge University Press Emergence of Meaning
Book SynopsisUsing the examples of English and Mandarin Chinese, Crain demonstrates that the underlying expressions and structures in these typologically different languages directly correlate to those of classical logic. Moreover Crain presents experimental data which shows the emergence of these concepts in the languages spoken by young children.Trade Review'This careful and sophisticated study provides powerful empirical evidence, from many sources, for logical nativism, the thesis that human languages make use of the logical concepts and laws of classical logic, and that these are contingent facts that are not learned and not required for a rational creature. It extends the conclusion to other aspects of natural language, its acquisition and use. The conclusions are compelling, and of great import for linguistics, philosophical logic, and psychology of language and mind quite generally.' Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'In this lucid study of how children understand logical vocabulary, Crain makes a powerful case for a substantive form of logical nativism. Using tools from classical logic and generative grammar, he unifies a range of individually impressive experimental results, thereby illustrating his fruitful method for investigating how semantic and logical competences are related.' Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland'New and deep ideas are a rarity in the study of language acquisition, and Stephen Crain's The Emergence of Meaning has plenty of both. This is likely to be considered one of the most important books in language acquisition in years.' Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and The Stuff of ThoughtTable of Contents1. Logic and human languages; 2. Competing approaches to language and logic; 3. The case for logical nativism; 4. Scope parameters; 5. How something can be both positive and negative; 6. Two logical operators for the price of one.
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Cambridge University Press Computability and Logic Fifth Edition
Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's theory of computability to Ramsey's theorem. This fifth edition was first published in 2007.
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Cambridge University Press Argumentation Schemes
Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.Table of Contents1. Basic tools in the state of the art; 2. Schemes for argument from analogy, classification and precedent; 3. Knowledge-related, practical and other schemes; 4. Arguments from generally accepted opinions, commitment and character; 5. Causal argumentation schemes; 6. Schemes and enthymemes; 7. Attack, rebuttal and refutation; 8. The history of schemes; 9. A user's compendium of schemes; 10. Refining the classification of schemes; 11. Formalizing schemes; 12. Schemes in computer systems.
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Cambridge University Press Kurt Gdel and the Foundations of Mathematics Horizons of Truth
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Reason
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Cambridge University Press Structural Proof Theory
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Cambridge University Press Practical Rules
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Cambridge University Press Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Science of Logic
Book SynopsisThis translation of Hegel's 'Greater Logic' includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816). The volume's introduction presents in synoptic form the results of recent scholarship on the subject. The translation is accompanied by a full apparatus of historical and explanatory notes.Trade Review"...The Science of Logic is a very provocative and interesting book, inspiring thinking in directions not thought before." --George Lăzăroiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York, Analysis and MetaphysicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Notes on the translation; The Science of Logic: Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Book I. The doctrine of being; Book II. Essence; Book III. The doctrine of the concept; Appendix. Hegel's logic in its revised and unrevised parts; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Carnap
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Cambridge University Press Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Critique of Metaphysics
Book SynopsisBéatrice Longuenesse offers a close analysis of the core issues in Hegel's Science of Logic and discusses both Hegel's debt and his polemical reaction to Kant. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Hegel's philosophy and its influence on contemporary philosophical discussion.Table of ContentsPart I. Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics: a study of the Doctrine of Essence: Introduction; 1. Transcendental logic and dialectical logic: from Kant to Hegel, a critique of all dogmatic metaphysics; 2. Twists and turns of Hegel's contradiction; 3. Ground against Concept?; 4. What is rational is actual, what is actual is rational; Conclusion; Part II. Point of View of Man or Knowledge of God: 5. Point of view of man or knowledge of God: Kant and Hegel on concept, judgement and reason; 6. Hegel on Kant on judgment.
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Cambridge University Press A Theory of Argument
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Cambridge University Press Elements of Moral Cognition
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Cambridge University Press The Emergence of Meaning 135 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 135
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Cambridge University Press Computability and Logic
Book SynopsisComputability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's theory of computability to Ramsey's theorem. This fifth edition was first published in 2007.Trade Review'… gives an excellent coverage of the fundamental theoretical results about logic involving computability, undecidability, axiomatization, definability, incompleteness, etc.' American Math Monthly'The writing style is excellent: Although many explanations are formal, they are perfectly clear. Modern, elegant proofs help the reader understand the classic theorems and keep the book to a reasonable length.' Computing Reviews' … a valuable asset to those who want to enhance their knowledge and strengthen their ideas in the areas of artificial intelligence, philosophy, theory of computing, discrete structures, mathematical logic. It is also useful to teachers for improving their teaching style in these subjects.' Computer EngineeringTable of ContentsPart I. Computability Theory: 1. Enumerability; 2. Diagonalization; 3. Turing computability; 4. Uncomputability; 5. Abacus computability; 6. Recursive functions; 7. Recursive sets and relations; 8. Equivalent definitions of computability; Part II. Basic Metalogic: 9. A precis of first-order logic: syntax; 10. A precis of first-order logic: semantics; 11. The undecidability of first-order logic; 12. Models; 13. The existence of models; 14. Proofs and completeness; 15. Arithmetization; 16. Representability of recursive functions; 17. Indefinability, undecidability, incompleteness; 18. The unprovability of consistency; Part III. Further Topics: 19. Normal forms; 20. The Craig interpolation theorem; 21. Monadic and dyadic logic; 22. Second-order logic; 23. Arithmetical definability; 24. Decidability of arithmetic without multiplication; 25. Non-standard models; 26. Ramsey's theorem; 27. Modal logic and provability.
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Cambridge University Press Informal Logic A Pragmatic Approach
Book SynopsisSecond edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail.Trade Review"Walton here updates his fine book on informal logic/critical thinking...Probably the best work on critical thinking to date, this volume would be an excellent text for courses on informal logic...Summing up: Essential. " - R. Puligandla, University of Toledo, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Argument as reasoned dialogue; 2. Questions and answers in dialogue; 3. Criticism of irrelevance; 4. Appeals to emotion; 5. Valid arguments; 6. Personal attack in argumentation; 7. Appeals to authority; 8. Inductive errors, bias, and fallacies; 9. Natural language argumentation.
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Cambridge University Press Free Logic
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Precedent
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Entailment and its History
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Classical and Modal Logics
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Cambridge University Press Free Logic
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Cambridge University Press What Is Life Revisited
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Cambridge University Press The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking
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Cambridge University Press Logical Dynamics of Information and Interaction
Book SynopsisThis book develops a view of logic as a theory of information-driven agency and intelligent interaction between many agents - with conversation, argumentation and games as guiding examples. It will interest students and scholars in a wide variety of subject areas.Trade Review'Logical Dynamics [of Information and Interaction] is at the frontiers of applied logic. This is an essential book for any student of the subject, written by a master of the field.' Dov Gabbay, King's College London'… this book is the best we can have for now as a great source for the research in the field of logical dynamics of information and interaction. It can be used as a handbook of DEL as well. I think the author has succeeded in demonstrating a new view of logic as a theory of information flow in the interaction of agents.' Yanjing Wang, Studia LogicaTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Logical dynamics, agency, and intelligent interaction; 2. Epistemic logic and semantic information; 3. Dynamic logic of public observation; 4. Multi-agent dynamic-epistemic logic; 5. Dynamics of inference and awareness; 6. Questions and issue management; 7. Soft information, correction, and belief change; 8. An encounter with probability; 9. Preference statics and dynamics; 10. Decisions, actions, and games; 11. Processes over time; 12. Epistemic group structure and collective agency; 13. Logical dynamics in philosophy; 14. Computation as conversation; 15. Rational dynamics in game theory; 16. Meeting cognitive realities; 17. Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Axiomatic Theories of Truth
Book SynopsisVolker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. His book will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Foundations; 2. Typed truth; 3. Type-free truth; 4. Ways to the truth; 5. Index of systems; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume examine the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The volume is intended for those with an interest in the logic and philosophy of modality.Table of ContentsIntroduction Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares and Adriane Rini; 1. Aristotle on the necessity of the consequent Adriane Rini; 2. Aristotle on one-sided possibility Marko Malink; 3. Why does Aristotle need a modal syllogistic? Robin Smith; 4. Necessity, possibility and determinism in Stoic thought Vanessa de Harven; 5. Necessity in Avicenna and the Arabic tradition Paul Thom; 6. Modality without the Prior Analytics: early twelfth-century accounts of modal propositions Chris Martin; 7. Ockham and the foundations of modal theory in the fourteenth century Calvin G. Normore; 8. Theological and scientific applications of the notion of necessity in the mediaeval and early modern periods Jack MacIntosh; 9. Locke and the problem of necessity in early modern philosophy Peter Anstey; 10. Leibniz's theories of necessity Brandon C. Look; 11. Leibniz and the lucky proof Jonathan Westphal; 12. Divine necessity and Kant's modal categories Nicholas Stang; 13. Charles Sanders Peirce on necessity Catherine Legg and Cheryl Misak; 14. The development of C. I. Lewis's philosophy of modal logic Edwin Mares; 15. Carnap's modal predicate logic Max Cresswell.
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Cambridge University Press Formal Languages in Logic A Philosophical And Cognitive Analysis
Book SynopsisFormal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this book, Catarina Dutilh Novaes adopts a much wider conception of formal languages so as to investigate more broadly what exactly is going on when theorists put these tools to use. She looks at the history and philosophy of formal languages and focuses on the cognitive impact of formal languages on human reasoning, drawing on their historical development, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy. Her wide-ranging study will be valuable for both students and researchers in philosophy, logic, psychology and cognitive and computer science.Trade Review'Since the rise of logical empiricism, formal languages have become essential tools of doing philosophy. But why does formalization work? And what are its limitations? This book fills a crucial gap in the literature by addressing these questions from a cognitive, historical, and logical point of view. I recommend it to formal philosophers, critics of formal philosophy, and everyone with an interest in the techniques of conceptual engineering per se.' Hannes Leitgeb, Ludwig Maximilians Universität MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Two notions of formality; 2. On the very notion of a formal language; 3. The history, purposes and limitations of formal languages; 4. How we do reason, and the need for counterbalance in science; 5. Formal languages and extended cognition; 6. De-semantification; 7. The debiasing effect of formalization; Conclusion.
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