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  • Logic and Metaphysics

    by J.L. Shaw, D.L. Oxtoby ...
    Series series The Works of J.L. Shaw
    This volume of the collected works of J.L. Shaw contains twelve papers that fall in the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Professor Shaw's methodology in these papers is that of comparative philosophy. With an emphasis on classical Indian analytical philosophy and late 19th and 20th century Western analytical philosophy, Professor Shaw compares such traditions as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON

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    by Immanuel Kant, Grant McNeil ...
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    Immanuel Kant's 'The Critique of Practical Reason' is a seminal work in moral philosophy, exploring the concept of practical reason and its role in guiding human action. Through rigorous analysis and logical argumentation, Kant delves into the principles of moral duty and the nature of ethical decision-making. Written in his signature clear and systematic style, the book reflects the Enlightenment ... Read more

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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)

    Delving into logical propositions and language philosophy

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    In the seminal work "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," Ludwig Wittgenstein offers a profound exploration of the relationship between language, reality, and thought, articulating a framework that seeks to dissolve traditional philosophical problems through logical analysis. Written in a distinctive, aphoristic style, the text presents a series of propositions that build upon one another, ultimately ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    by David Papineau ...
    This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, ... Read more

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  • The World-Time Parallel

    Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics

    by A. A. Rini, M. J. Cresswell ...
    Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an ... Read more

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  • Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

    by Alexander Philip ...
    An exploration of the fundamental realities of the existenceIs this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land?In this volume plumbing the depths of human experience, Alexander Philip explores the nature of reality at its most basic level. Examining the ways that time, abstract thought, and physical sensation affect ... Read more

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  • Introducing Bertrand Russell

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson, Judy Groves ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education. ... Read more

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  • Vagueness and Degrees of Truth

    by Nicholas J. J. Smith ...
    In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism. A predicate is said to be vague if there is no sharply defined boundary between the things to which it applies and the things to which it does not apply. For example, 'heavy' is vague in a way that 'weighs over 20 kilograms' is not. A great many predicates - both in everyday talk, and in ... Read more

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  • Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics

    by Paul Studtmann ...
    If there is one utterly inescapable problem for the metaphysician, it is this: is metaphysics itself a theoretically legitimate discipline? Is it, in other words, capable of a systematic and well-confirmed set of theoretical results? And if not, why not? From its inception, metaphysics has found itself exercised by the nagging worry that its own inquiries might reveal it to be a subject without an ... Read more

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  • Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics

    by Márcio Moretto Ribeiro ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics.Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics presents a framework which can be applied to a wide class of ... Read more

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  • Berkeley

    Ideas, Immateralism, and Objective Presence

    by Keota Fields ...
    Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to focus on Berkeley's use of the Cartesian doctrine of objective presence, which demands causal explanations of the content of ... Read more

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