The first of five planned volumes, this book collects Wittgenstein’s unabridged writings on mathematics and logic compos......more
Aristotle’s Organon in Old and New Logic 1800-1950 explores the reception and interpretation of Aristotle’s logic over t......more
There is an assumption that reality has the structure of a simple stack of facts, and that a total view of the facts is ......more
The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of sel......more
The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of sel......more
The Multiverse is an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Philosophers have propose......more
The Multiverse is an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Philosophers have propose......more
This book is an accessible introduction to philosophical logic’s phenomenological approach, elucidating its principles a......more
Never before published in authentic form, this collection of Jeremy Bentham’s essays expands on his ideas about logic, l......more
Never before published in authentic form, this collection of Jeremy Bentham’s essays expands on his ideas about logic, l......more
This book explores Wittgenstein’s unsettling remark in the Tractatus that the only necessity that exists is logical nece......more
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Explores how decision making, grounded in modal logic, shapes a person’s relationship to the world by transforming their......more
In this compelling study Charles John Paetsch explores the overlooked relationship between time and logic in Gilles Dele......more
Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation (LBTC) is a popular modality of philosophical counseling developed by philosopher Ell......more
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of n......more
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of n......more
How humanity’s long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Informa......more
This book redefines our understanding of information as more than mere data or communication--it presents information as......more
This book redefines our understanding of information as more than mere data or communication--it presents information as......more
Forming beliefs is one of the most basic and important features of the mind. While philosophers generally use the term "......more
Originally published in 1993, reissued here with a new introduction, the study of rationality was one of the most exciti......more
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This book explores Gottlob Frege’s mature views on truth, as expressed primarily in a late series of essays entitled "Lo......more
First published in 1969, The Logic of Empirical Theories by Marian Przelecki is a seminal work in the philosophy of scie......more
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Traditionally, a justification for believing something is a priori is if, and only if, it is independent of experience. ......more
Eugen Fink’s deep engagement with the phenomenon of play saw him transcend his two towering mentors, Edmund Husserl and ......more
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First Published in 1963, Logic and Criticism makes one of the rare attempts since that of I.A. Richard’s Principles of L......more
The Ways of Knowing (1925) examines the ways of attaining knowledge and verifying it, looking at the six methods of logi......more
A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen--one of the leading e......more
The Theory Pamphlet presents Gerhard Gentzen’s natural deduction and sequent calculi with emphasis on the theory behind ......more
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Past, Present and Future, first published in 1867, is the magnum opus of Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969). Prior was the ......more
Charles S. Peirce is generally known to have produced a theory of signs and to have been the founder of pragmatism. What......more
Peirceana provides a forum for the best current work on Peirce worldwide. Besides monographs, the series publishes thema......more
Driven by an intercultural vision and comparative research, this is the first volume to bring together African and Weste......more
This volume rethinks debates about reason’s universality and relativity by foregrounding its inherent locality. Rather t......more
A comprehensive examination of the interfaces of logic, computer science, and game theory, drawing on twenty years of re......more
Popular science and media are awash in sweeping claims concerning how some characteristic human behavior, feeling, or ps......more
Philosophy has long wrongfully imprisoned reasoning within the isolated chambers of the individual mind. This book shatt......more
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First published in 1963, Language, Meaning and Persons stands as a bold challenge to the declaration that metaphysics ha......more
This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philos......more
Nyāya Sūtra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Akṣapāda, an Indian philosopher who lived around th......more
According to the semantic definition of logical consequence or validity, an argument is logically valid if, and only if,......more
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) had many followers among Jews living in the Mediterranean Basin, but his philosophical book......more
A barrier to entailment exists if you can’t get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most ......more
This volume gathers twelve papers exploring how medieval thinkers conceptualized time, examined the linguistic expressio......more
An accessible resource to help you puzzle out logic concepts Logic For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains all the varied ways......more
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Sharpen your mind. Strengthen your decisions. See the world more clearly. In a world filled with noise, distraction, and......more
This book is a compilation of the author’s most important papers about the contributions of Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel......more
What if your smartest decisions aren t actually smart but just familiar, fast, and deeply flawed? In a world that reward......more
What if the real edge in life and work isn t having more information but thinking better with what you already have? In ......more
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in w......more
This textbook is a gently-paced, comprehensive introduction to model theory suitable for students of philosophy, linguis......more
Metasemantics studies the foundations of meaning, asking what makes it the case that certain words have the meanings tha......more
The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influen......more
Public debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies tend to devolve into false dichotomies of optimism vers......more
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A classic textbook on the study of logic In the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools and f......more
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This LNCS book is part of the FOLLI book series and constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on ......more
The original contributions contained in this book are to celebrate the 65th birthday of Andreas Herzig, a well-known log......more
First published in 1985, Principles of Language and Mind presents a systematic and original account of the principles wh......more
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"Much of the philosophical work of the last half-century could not have existed without Naming and Necessity. If you rea......more
Finally, a book that makes shouting down your opponents fun, easy, and educational! In this colorful primer, budding you......more
The received view of identity takes it to be a binary relation between objects like many others: specifically, identity ......more
An exciting "new perspective on equality and difference" (Stephon Alexander) that shows why the familiar equal sign isn’......more
The Second Edition of An Introduction to Ontology Engineering provides an updated comprehensive overview of ontology eng......more
First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept......more
First published in 1961, Inductive Probability is a dialectical analysis of probability as it occurs in inductions. The ......more
The book examines the notion of impossible worlds. Although the notion of an impossible world is not novel, several misu......more
It’s difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like "You ought to donate to charity," or "You oug......more
It’s difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like "You ought to donate to charity," or "You oug......more
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provi......more
Logic refers to the systematic study of valid inference forms and the fundamental laws of truth. A valid inference occur......more
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