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  • Wittgenstein

    The Crooked Roads

    by Professor William Lyons ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers. Spanning most of his life, from his early encounters with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge to a final trip to New York via the Russian Front, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

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  • Hermeneutics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jens Zimmermann ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, and even dinner conversations every day . But how is knowledge mediated through these forms? What constitutes the process of interpretation? And how do ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought

    by Vladimir Tasic ...
    This is a charming and insightful contribution to an understanding of the "Science Wars" between postmodernist humanism and science, driving toward a resolution of the mutual misunderstanding that has driven the controversy. It traces the root of postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations of mathematics early in the 20th century, then compares developments in mathematics to what took place ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

    by Mark Colyvan ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey through some intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory, including such topics as the realism/anti-realism debate in mathematics, mathematical explanation, the limits of mathematics, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    Edited by Frederick C. Beiser ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica

    by Bernard Linsky ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • New Waves in Philosophical Logic

    Edited by G. Restall, G. Russell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies

    by O. Bradley Bassler ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: “What is the Matrix?” Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper diagnosis of modern philosophical conditions. In contrast to the contemporary focus upon cognitive ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Frege

    Edited by Tom Ricketts, Michael Potter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. ... Read more

    $40.99 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

  • Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)

    by Bernard Bolzano ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Paradoxes of the Infinite presents one of the most insightful, yet strangely unacknowledged, mathematical treatises of the 19th century: Dr Bernard Bolzano’s Paradoxien. This volume contains an adept translation of the work itself by Donald A. Steele S.J., and in addition an historical introduction, which includes a brief biography as well as an evaluation of Bolzano the mathematician, logician ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Probability Logics

    Probability-Based Formalization of Uncertain Reasoning

    by Zoran Ognjanović, Miodrag Rašković, Zoran Marković ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to probability logic-based formalization of uncertain reasoning. The authors' primary interest is mathematical techniques for infinitary probability logics used to obtain results about proof-theoretical and model-theoretical issues such as axiomatizations, completeness, compactness, and decidability, including solutions of some problems from the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD