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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

    $43.99 USD

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    Enriched edition. Exploring Human Cognition and Morality in 18th-Century Philosophy

    by David Hume, Wesley Montague ...
    David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" is a seminal work that lays the groundwork for modern philosophy and psychology. Written in a candid and accessible style, Hume investigates the complexities of human cognition, emotion, and morality through a lens of empiricism. Divided into three books, the treatise explores the nature of ideas, the formation of beliefs, and the principles of ethics, ... Read more

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  • The Republic

    New Revised Edition

    by Plato ...
    Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional dialogues the characters of Socrates as well as various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether the just man is ... 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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  • On Generation and Corruption

    by Aristotle ...
    "On Generation and Corruption" is a philosophical treatise written by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The work is concerned with the nature of change and the principles that govern the transformation of substances in the natural world.Aristotle argues that everything in the natural world is composed of four basic elements: earth, air, fire, and water. These elements have different ... 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

    $42.99 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

    $89.99 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