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  • Metaphysicians of Meaning

    Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation

    by Gideon Makin ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Critique of Practical Reason

    Analysis of reason

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    It is the second in chronological order of Kant's three famous Critiques, which also include the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the Critique of Judgment (1790).In practical reason, the philosopher conducts the critical analysis of reason in the case in which it is addressed to action and behavior, to practice precisely. ... Read more

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

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertram Russell, Charles Kay Ogden ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. It was an ambitious project: to identify the ... 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

    $21.89 USD

  • Truth as One and Many

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • 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

    $41.39 USD

  • Between Saying and Doing : Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    by Robert B. Brandom ...
    Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight bot ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 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

    $105.29 USD

  • 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

    $49.99 USD

  • Rethinking German Idealism

    Edited by S.J. McGrath, Joseph Carew ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The ‘death’ of German Idealism has been decried innumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-century critique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, or analytic philosophy. Yet in the face of two hundred years of sustained, extremely rigorous attempts to leave behind its legacy, German Idealism has resisted its philosophical death ... Read more

    $116.09 USD