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  • Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

    The Story of Necessity

    Edited by Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares, Adriane Rini ...
    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on 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 story begins with an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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    by David Hume ...
    My design in the present work is sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The reader must only observe, that all the subjects I have there planned out to myself, are not treated of in these two volumes. The subjects of the Understanding and Passions make a compleat chain of reasoning by themselves; and I was willing to take advantage of this natural division, in order to try the taste of the ... Read more

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  • The Republic | Plato

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    Explore the foundational questions of justice, morality, and governance through Plato's "The Republic," masterfully translated by Benjamin Jowett. This seminal work delves into the ideal state, the role of philosophers in society, and the nature of reality, presenting Socrates' dialogues on creating a just society. Plato's insights into human nature and the pursuit of knowledge are as relevant ... 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

  • Aristotle On Generation And Corruption

    by H. H. Joachim ...
    Aristotle: On Generation and CorruptionTranslated by H. H. JoachimReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold ... Read more

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  • Introducing Plato

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    "Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Origin

    by Steven Strong, Evan Strong ...
    Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people. Steven Strong and Evan Strong continue in their investigation into the global impact of Aboriginal people sailing from, never to, Australia no less than 50,000 years ago, paying particular attention to the shared principles found within many Gnostic scriptures and the Dreaming. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy

    Edited by Gabriele Galluzzo, Michael J. Loux ...
    Are there any universal entities? Or is the world populated only by particular things? The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. This collection of new essays provides an innovative overview of the contemporary debate on universals. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl

    by Stefania Centrone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl’s work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. Unlike most phenomenologists, the author refrains from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Embodiment

    A History

    Edited by Justin E.H. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Epistemology versus Ontology

    Essays on the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics in Honour of Per Martin-Löf

    Edited by P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, B.G. Sundholm, Erik Palmgren ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics. In philosophy, one has been concerned with the opposition between constructivism and classical mathematics and the different ontological and epistemological views that are reflected in this opposition. The dominant foundational framework for current ... Read more

    $188.09 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