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MIT Press Ltd Reasoning about Uncertainty 2e
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Lutterworth Press Logic Made Easy
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The University of Alabama Press Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
Book SynopsisIn the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. This book is an an anthology of the most important historical sources on presumptions and burdens of proof.Trade ReviewPresumptions and Burdens of Proof fills a current void in scholarship and provides an excellent balance of prior published work along with new work that advances scholarly inquiry in new directions. It will become a standard resource and will have a heuristic impact in generating new scholarship."" - Raymie McKerrow, professor emeritus of communication and rhetoric, Ohio State University, and editor of Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of Contents Preface Introduction Part 1. Historical Selections Chapter 1. Dialectical Propositions (from Topics) by Aristotle Chapter 2. Presumptions in Legal Argumentation: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Hanns Hohmann Chapter 3. Of the Burthen of Proof: On Whom Shall It Lie? by Jeremy Bentham Chapter 4. Presumptions and Burden of Proof by Richard Whately Chapter 5. The Sportsman's Rejoinder by Richard Whately Chapter 6. The Burden of Proof by Alfred Sidgwick Chapter 7. The Burden of Proof by James B. Thayer Chapter 8. On Presumption and Burden of Proof by C. P. Ilbert Part 2. Contemporary Developments Chapter 9. The Anatomy of a Dispute by Douglas Ehninger and Wayne Brockriede Chapter 10. A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of the Burden of Proof by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser Chapter 11. The Juridical Roots of Presumptions and Burdens of Proof by Richard Gaskins Chapter 12. Inertia in Argumentation: Nature and Reason by James Crosswhite Chapter 13. The Liberal-Progressive and Conservative Presumptions: On Deliberation, Debate, and Public Argument by G. Thomas Goodnight Chapter 14. Rhetorical and Epistemological Perspectives on Rescher's Account of Presumption and Burden of Proof by Fred J. Kauffeld and James B. Freeman Chapter 15. The Significance of Presumptions in Informal Logic by James B. Freeman Chapter 16. Analyzing Presumption as a Modal Qualifier by David Godden Chapter 17. The Speech Act of Presumption by Reversal of Burden of Proof by Douglas Walton Chapter 18. Some Presumptions by Edna Ullmann-Margalit Chapter 19. On the Relationship between Presumptions and Burdens of Proof by Lilian Bermejo-Luque Chapter 20. A Rhetorically Oriented Account of Presumption and Probative Obligations in Normative Pragmatic Terms by Fred J. Kauffeld A Bibliography for Argumentation Theorists Works Cited About the Authors Index
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Cengage Learning Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Critical Thinking An Empirically Informed
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science.This highly innovative text is psychologically informed, both in its diagnosis of inferential errors, and in teaching students how to watch out for and work around their natural intellectual blind spots. It also incorporates insights from epistemology and philosophy of science that are indispensable for learning how to evaluate premises. The result is a hands-on primer for real world critical thinking. The authors bring over four combined decades of classroom expeTrade Review"This is among the very best critical thinking textbooks I've ever seen. What distinguishes it from others, besides its clarity and accessibility, is that it doesn't simply explain the norms of good reasoning and the common ways in which people flout those norms; it also explains the mechanisms that cause us to flout those norms more or less predictably, and thereby helps us to refute the voice of the primitive cave dweller who lives in our brain." --Ram Neta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Critical thinking is all too often taught as basic deductive logic with a passing reference to inductive logic. Lyons and Ward’s empirical approach to critical thinking draws upon the vast literature in cognitive psychology on heuristics and biases. They expertly blend traditional coverage of deductive logic, inductive logic, causal inference, and probability theory with important psychological results. The final product is a refreshing and promising method to train people how to critically evaluate pressing claims."--Ted Poston, University of South Alabama "Logicians have developed accurate methods of testing reasoning for such desirable properties as deductive validity and inductive strength. Recent work in cognitive science has shown, however, that in everyday life we tend to evaluate reasoning on the basis of heuristics that fail to track these properties reliably. Lyons and Ward's brilliant book is the first to acknowledge this gap between theory and practice and to develop effective strategies for overcoming it. Bravo!"--Christopher Hill, Brown University"The New Critical Thinking is perfect for introductory students. The approach is original in its being psychologically-informed, and it's practical. It will actually help students become sharper thinkers outside the classroom." --Aaron R. Champene, St. Louis Community College, MeramecTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to Instructors Introduction To Critical Thinking 1. The Aims and Causes of Belief2. Reasoning and Dual Systems Theory3. Reasoning, Evidence, and Arguments4. Why Reason (Properly)?5. Plan for the BookSummaryPart I: DeductionChapter 1: Validity: Why it Matters 1. Distinguishing the Good From the Bad2. Validity and Impossibility3. More on Logical Impossibility Logical Terms Equivocation4. Logic and the Belief Bias5. Why it Matters: Missing Premises and Insisting on Validity SummaryChapter 2 : Proving Invalidity and Proving Validity 1. Proving Invalidity by Counterexample2. Proving Validity3. Negations, Indicative Conditionals, and Two Important Valid Argument Forms Conditionals and the Wason Test4. Two Important Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent An Important Note about Fallacious Argument Forms5. More Valid Argument Forms and More About Conditionals 6. Equivalent Sentences and Disguised Conditionals7. Even More Valid Argument Forms: Aristotelian Syllogisms in One Bite Using Euler Diagrams:8. Summation: Evaluating Arguments SummaryChapter 3. Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments 1. Identifying by Evaluating2. Mapping Complex Arguments3. Reconstructing by Connecting the Dots4. Extra Help: Premise and Conclusion Indicators5. Putting All This TogetherSummaryPart II: InductionChapter 4: Inductive Arguments 1. Statistical Syllogism Conditional Support Comes in Degrees Undermining By Additional Information and the Requirement of Total Evidence2. Defeaters and Mapping Inductive Arguments3. Inductive Generalization Defeaters for Inductive Generalizations The Availability Heuristic4. Argument from Analogy Defeaters for Analogical Inference Deductive Arguments with Analogical Premises5. Inference to the Best Explanation6. Balance of Features7. Confirmation BiasSummaryChapter 5: Causal Inference 1. The Nature of Causation One More Thing about Causation2. "The" Cause? Singling out Causes in a Complex World3. Identifying Causes4. Causation, Correlation, and Confounds Some Varieties of Causal Investigations Better and Worse5. Causal Narratives6. Singular Causes RevisitedSummaryChapter 6: Probability and Frequency 1. Introduction to Probability Probabilities and System 12. Frequencies and Frequency Trees3. The Probability Calculus4. Bayes’s Theorem The Theorem Frequency Trees and Bayes5. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics "Averages" How to Live Effect Size and Effect SignificanceSummaryChapter 7: Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited 1. Reconstructing and Identifying2. Mapping More Complex ArgumentsPart III: Truth: Evaluating PremisesChapter 8: Testimony1. The Need for Testimony2. How Can you Spot the Experts if You’re Not an Expert? Sincerity, Competence, Trustworthiness Mapping Arguments from Authority Testimony and Ad Hominem3. Epistemological Perils of the Internet News, Unreliable News, and Fake News4. Wikipedia5. Fair and Balanced?SummaryChapter 9: Science 1. Disagreeing with Science: The Earth is Flat and Star Trek is Real2. Why Trust Science?3. How Does Science Work? Provability Falsifiability4. Hypotheses, Theories, and Conjectures5. Extended Example: Evolution and Historical Explanation6. Science in the Non-Science Press P-hacking7. Applying What We’ve Learned: Crowds, Self-selection, and Causal Fallacies Democracy and Scientific FactSummaryPart IV: ArgumentationChapter 10: Rhetoric 1. Emotion and Belief2. Influencing and Bypassing Reasoning Apt Feelings3. Abuses of Emotive Rhetoric Ad hominem Ad Populum and Peer Pressure Appeals to Force, Pity and Consequences Other Uses of Emotive Language 4. Rhetorical Tricks with Language5. Enthymemes, again6. Rhetoric and Cognitive IllusionSummaryChapter 11: Dialectic 1. The Dynamics of Argumentation The First Golden Rule of Constructive Argumentation: Respond to the Argument The Second Golden Rule: Track the Burden of Proof The Third Golden Rule: Demand Overall Consistency The Fourth Golden Rule: Be Charitable2. Ultimate Premises Depriving the Claimant of Premises3. Analogy, Parity of Reasoning, and Tu QuoqueSummaryAppendix of Fallacies Index
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McGraw Hill Education India Looseleaf for the Logic Book
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McGraw-Hill Education Connect Access Card for the Power of Logic
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McGraw Hill Education India Looseleaf for the Power of Logic
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McGraw-Hill Companies Looseleaf for Critical Thinking
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why Did the Logician Cross the Road
Book SynopsisFind out what connects logic and humor in this alternative guide to logical reasoning. Combining jokes, stories, and ironic situations, Stan Baronett shows how it is possible to ground the language of logic in everyday experience. Each chapter introduces a basic logical reasoning concept based on happenings in daily life. Using jokes as his examples, Baronett reveals the inner workings of logic. After all an effective joke often relies on an unanticipated assumption that leads to an unexpected result. The assumption changes the normal context of an everyday situation, so we are surprised by the ending. A complex mind that learns from experience, and builds a storehouse of regularly recurring patterns, is a great survival tool. But for a joke to work, the punch line has to be something our minds don't logically anticipate. The ending jolts our minds for a split second while we grasp the absurdity of the situation. This is how logic works: one part of your mind determines whether tTrade ReviewEngaging, accessible, and very clearly written, this wonderfully humorous text makes learning logic as enjoyable as a comedy show! * James Stacey Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey, USA *Baronett expertly presents both logic and humor as processes moving from assumptions to inferences, helping us see how the conclusion of our neighbor’s argument can be as rigorous in its logic as it is hilarious in its unpredictability. We're also reminded how much fun it can be to thoughtfully communicate with one other on topics large and small, from the absurd to the noteworthy. * Joia Lewis, Professor of Philosophy of Science (retired), Saint Paul College, USA *How clear. How practical. How memorable. What witty illustrations! Professor Baronett’s affinity for the humorous is catchy, and it leads the reader to understand. Students, teachers, and enthusiasts alike will read with pleasure. I plan to use this as a companion to Baronett’s Logic in my classroom. * Wes Jorde, Philosophy Instructor, Dakota County Technical College, Minnesota, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. You Call That An Argument? 2. That Comes In Two Flavors 3. I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You 4. Origin Of The Specious 5. It’s Nothing Like That 6. Operator Assistance 7. Below Average 8. Casual Causality Bibliography Index
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Basic Books Proof
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PublicAffairs Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our
Book Synopsis A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible.In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people who have radically altered their beliefs--from the woman who had to reckon with her husband''s terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our own lives, and asks: what made someone change course? How should their reversals affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world, what do they teach us about how we might change the minds of others? Inspiring, perceptive, and moving, Stop Being Reasonable explores why resistance to evidence is often rooted in self-preservation and fear, why we feel shame in admitting we are wrong, and why who we believe is often more important than what we believe. This fascinating book will completely change the way you look at the power of persuasion.
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Aristotle in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Plato in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Descartes in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Descartes’ life and ideas. * Audible.Com *
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Barcharts, Inc Logic
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Russell's Metaphysical Logic
Book SynopsisThis study reconciles distinct aspects of Russell's thought long thought to be incompatible, the metaphysics of universals and facts from Russell's Logical Atomism period and the philosophical justification of the ramified theory of types in the Introduction to Principia Mathematica. This account, which interprets Russell as being a realist about both universals and propositional functions, while distinguishing the two, provides a defense of some problematic features of the logic of PM including the Axiom of Reducibility and the Vicious Circle Principle. Russell's seemingly ambivalent attitude towards propositions and functions is explained by interpreting both with a broadened notion of logical construction. Contrary to other recent interpretations, this account follows Alonzo Church's technical formulation of the ramified theory of types and interprets the quantifiers as objectual, ranging over functions as entities, while being consistent with the 'multiple relation' theory of judgment.Table of Contents1. Russell's changing ontology; 2. Universals and propositional functions; 3. Propositions; 4. The ramified theory of types; 5. Types in Principia Mathematica; 6. The axiom of reducibility; 7. Logical constructions; 8. Postscript on logicism; 9. Bibliography.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Logical Perspectives on Language and Information
Book SynopsisRapid innovations in digital technology deeply influence views on language and information processing. Any new developments raise many questions for researchers, and can help shed new light on old approaches. Logic is a tool that researchers can use to gain insight into investigations of the relation between form and content, the ways that linguistic utterances change information content and the dynamics of information change. This text presents a broad range of logical investigations into language and information processing. Topics covered include: the notion of "reasonable belief" in commonsense reasoning, perpetual reports in natural languages, the logic of creation and modification of objects, the verification of temporal aspects of reactive systems, analysis of scope by combining model theory and situation semantics, and semantic analysis of the information articulation of linguistic statements.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Philosophical Status of Diagrams
Book SynopsisThe use of diagrams in logic and geometry has encountered resistence throughout the years. For a proof to be valid in geometry it must not rely on the graphical properties of a diagram. In logic the teaching of proofs depends on the sentenial representations, ideas formed as natural language sentences such as "if A is true and B is true...". No serious formal proof system is based on diagrams. This text explores the reasons why structured graphics have been ignored in modern formal theories of axiomatic systems. The effects of historical forces on the evolution of diagrammatically-based systems of inference in logic and geometry are explored, from antiquity to the early 20th-century work of David Hilbert. From this exploration emerges an understanding that the present negative attitudes towards the use of diagrams in logic and geometry owe more to implicit appeals to their history and philosophical background than to any technical incompatibility with modern theories of logical systems.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A
Book SynopsisOne of the fundamental theses of this book is that logical consequence and logical truth are not simply given, but arise as conventions among the users of logic. Thus Syverson explains convention within a game-theoretic framework, as a kind of equilibrium between the strategies of players in a game where they share common knowledge of events - a revisiting of Lewis's Convention that argues that convention can be reasonably treated as coordination equilibria. Most strikingly, a realistic solution is provided for Gray's classic coordination problem wherein two generals can only communicate with each other through unreliable means.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A
Book SynopsisOne of the fundamental theses of this book is that logical consequence and logical truth are not simply given, but arise as conventions among the users of logic. Thus Syverson explains convention within a game-theoretic framework, as a kind of equilibrium between the strategies of players in a game where they share common knowledge of events - a revisiting of Lewis's Convention that argues that convention can be reasonably treated as coordination equilibria. Most strikingly, a realistic solution is provided for Gray's classic coordination problem wherein two generals can only communicate with each other through unreliable means.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Words, Proofs and Diagrams
Book SynopsisThe past 20 years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of interdisciplinay research collaborations as computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists all explore the same question: how can logic illuminate the nature of information? This collection covers active research areas at the interface of logic, computer science, and linguistics: process logics, formal semantics, language processing, and a new area where all three meet - the study of images and graphics as information carriers, and the diagrammatic reasoning supported by them.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Games, Logic, and Constructive Sets
Book SynopsisMathematical game theory has been embraced by a variety of scholars: social scientists, biologists, linguists, and now, increasingly, logicians. This volume illustrates the recent advances of game theory in the field. Logicians benefit from things like game theory's ability to explain informational independence between connectives; meanwhile, game theorists have even begun to benefit from logical epistemic analyses of game states. In concert with such pioneering work, this volume also present surprising developments in classical fields, including first-order logic and set theory.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Perspectives on Contexts
Book SynopsisMost human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but, until recently, theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. "Perspectives on Contexts" brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge a vigorous interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. Applicable to human and machine cognition in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and psychology, this volume is essential to the current renaissance in thinking about context.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Reasoning, Rationality and Probability
Book SynopsisThis volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, statistics, computer science, engineering, and physics, "Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability" argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools. Both science and everyday life, the authors argue, are too complex and multifaceted to be forced into ready-made schemata.
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Bloomsbury USA Logic: The Ancient Art of Reason
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Logic and Representation
Book SynopsisLogic and Representation brings together a collection of essays, written over a period of ten years, that apply formal logic and the notion of explicit representation of knowledge to a variety of problems in artificial intelligence, natural language semantics and the philosophy of mind and language. Particular attention is paid to modelling and reasoning about knowledge and belief, including reasoning about one's own beliefs, and the semantics of sentences about knowledge and belief. Robert C. Moore begins by exploring the role of logic in artificial intelligence, considering logic as an analytical tool, as a basis for reasoning systems, and as a programming language. He then looks at various logical analyses of propositional attitudes, including possible-world models, syntactic models, and models based on Russellian propositions. Next Moore examines autoepistemic logic, a logic for modelling reasoning about one's own beliefs. Rounding out the volume is a section on the semantics of natural language, including a survey of problems in semantic representation; a detailed study of the relations among events, situations, and adverbs; and a presentation of a unification-based approach to semantic interpretation. Robert C. Moore is principal scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International.Table of ContentsPart I. Methodological Arguments: 1. The role of logic in artificial intelligence: 2. A cognitivist reply to behaviourism; Part II. Propositional Attitudes: 3. A formal theory of knowledge and action; 4. Computational models of belief and the semantics of belief sentences; 5. Propositional attitudes and Russellian propositions; Part III. Autoepistemic Logic: 6. Semantical considerations on nonmonotonic logic; 7. Possible-world semantics for autoepistemic logic; Part IV. Semantics of Natural Language: 8. Events, situations, and adverbs; 9. Unification-based semantic interpretation; Index.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Logic Language and Computation Volume 1
Book SynopsisPresents work that evolved out of the Third Conference on Situation Theory and Its Applications, held at Oiso, Japan, in November of 1991.
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St Augustine's Press Commentary on Aristotle`s Posterior Analytics
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Parmenides Publishing To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides. The
Book SynopsisTo Think Like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C.E. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon, and the lawmaker Parmenides of Elea. In their own ways, each thinker held that true insight, whether as wisdom or certainty, belonged not to mortal human beings but to the gods.The Pythagoreans sought to approach this otherworldly knowledge by studying numerical relationships, believing them to govern the universe, and that those who know the number of a thing know its true nature. Yet their quest was a hopeless one, bogged down by cultism, numerology, political conspiracies, bloody uprisings, and exile. Above all, number did not turn out as the most reliable of mediums; it was certainly not a key to the realm of the divine. Thus, their contributions to philosophy's inception, while much better publicized, were not the most significant. That particular role was reserved for an unusual challenge and the elaborate reaction it provoked.The challenge came from Xenophanes, who had argued that reliable truth was beyond mortal reach, because even if by accident a human being should state what is exactly the case, he had no way of knowing that he did, all things being susceptible to opinion. This dilemma is sure to have bothered a legislative mind like that of Parmenides, and we find him introducing techniques for testing the veracity of statements. These methods were meant to be carried out by reasoning and argument alone, without relying on physical evidence or mortal sense-perception, which was deemed untrustworthy. Reason was that one faculty shared by gods and humans alike.In time, Parmenides' ingenious arguments have earned him the title of the first logician and metaphysician whose influence on subsequent thinkers was immeasurable. Parmenides taught us that philosophy was not about claims but about proof, which also makes him the father of theoretical science—which, curiously, began as a quest into the mind of God.Trade ReviewThis is a fresh and stimulating study of the father of Eleaticism – and it would be interesting to see whether this construction of Parmenides could be made to work as a reaction to the modes of thought implicit in the cosmologies of his Ionic predecessors"". - Cambridge Journals
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Parmenides Publishing Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist
Book SynopsisThe Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretation.Here is a new translation of this important late Platonic dialogue, with a comprehensive commentary that reverses the dominant trends in the scholarship of the last fifty years. The Sophist is shown to be not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, which reveals both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Plato’s criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry.The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. In a new translation and interpretation, this late dialogue is shown to be a defense of not a departure from Plato’s metaphysics.The book is intended to provide a complete interpretation of Plato's Sophist as a whole. Central to the methodology adopted is the assumption that all elements of the dialogue to be understood must be understood in the context of the dialogue as a whole and in its relation to other works in the Platonic corpus.Three main points are argued: 1) the dialogue does not present a definitive or positive doctrine of the late Plato, but has the structure of a reductio ad absurdum; 2) the figure of the sophist is employed to critically examining the metaphysics of Parmenides. While acknowledging a core of metaphysical insight in Parmenides, the argument implies that, by failing to account for resemblance, Eleaticism implies an inadequate theory of relations, which makes impossible an adequate understanding of essence. Consequently, Eleaticism unrevised can be taken as the philosophical underpinning for the antithesis of philosophy, lending legitimacy to sophistry; 3) the criticism constitutes an indirect argument for Platonic metaphysics, which has roots in Eleaticism, that is, for the Theory of Forms.Trade Reviewthere are things to be grateful for in this book; above all, it is well argued and clearly written. And, just because of its difficulties, Sophist is studied less than many Platonic dialogues: it is good to have a new translation and a thought-provoking book-length commentary"". - Heythrop Journal
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Parmenides Publishing The Illustrated To Think Like God: Pythagoras and
Book SynopsisFascinating illustrations contribute to this illuminating account of how and why philosophy emerged and make it a must-read for any inquisitive thinker unsatisfied with prevailing assumptions on this timely and highly relevant subject.By taking the reader back to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy more than 500 years B.C.E., the author, with unparalleled insight, tells the story of the Pythagorean quest for otherworldly knowledge—a tale of cultism, political conspiracies, and bloody uprisings that eventually culminate in tragic failure. The emerging hero is Parmenides, who introduces for the first time a technique for testing the truth of a statement that was not based on physical evidence or mortal sense-perception, but instead relied exclusively on the faculty we humans share with the gods: the ability to reason.Trade ReviewHermann's book brings Parmenides to life through lucid explanations and an incisive use of quotations from Parmenides and his contemporaries, offering both scholars and lay readers a 21st-century consideration of an ancient thinker. It succeeds admirably, shedding a classical light on our own age as well as revealing lively intellect of the past"". - Publisher's Weekly
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Classiques Garnier Homo Externatus lHomme Procedural
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Brepols N.V. John of Salisbury on Aristotelian Science
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Brepols N.V. Formal Approaches and Natural Language in
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Brepols N.V. Boethius. on Topical Differences: A Commentary
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin de la Logique Interne
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Isagoge
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Logique Inductive Et Probabilite: 1945-1970
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Questions d'Attitudes: Essai de Philosophie
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Modes de l'Analyse Et Formes de la Geometrie
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Theorie de la Connaissance: Edition Du Centenaire
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Introduction a la Theorie de la Demonstration:
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Archives Du Virtuel
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Penser Par Diagramme
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Denis Vernant En Dialogues: Logique, Pragmatique,
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Duncker & Humblot Hegel Und Das Projekt Einer Philosophischen
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Duncker & Humblot Das Beste Von Hegel - The Best of Hegel
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