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  • Russell's Unknown Logicism

    A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics

    by S. Gandon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2013. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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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

  • Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

    Selected Essays

    by Charles Parsons ...
    In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century.Parsons begins with a discussion of the Kantian legacy in the work of L. E. J. Brouwer, David Hilbert, and Paul Bernays, shedding light on how Bernays revised his philosophy after his collaboration with Hilbert. ... Read more

    $62.09 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

  • Modal Logic for Philosophers

    by James W. Garson ...
    This book on modal logic is especially designed for philosophy students. It provides an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications. Every effort is made to simplify the presentation by using diagrams instead of more complex mathematical apparatus. These and other innovations provide philosophers with easy access to a rich variety of topics in modal ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth

    An Introduction to the Practice of Interpreting Philosophical Texts

    by U. Pardey ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book has two objectives: to be a contribution to the understanding of Frege's theory of truth – especially a defence of his notorious critique of the correspondence theory - and to be an introduction to the practice of interpreting philosophical texts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Critical Thinking

    An Introduction to Reasoning Well

    by Dr Robert Arp, Dr Jamie Carlin Watson ...
    'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right?For anyone tackling philosophical logic and critical thinking for the first time, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well provides a practical guide to the skills required to think critically. From the basics of good ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Lack of Character

    Personality and Moral Behavior

    by John M. Doris ...
    This book is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethical theory challenging foundational conceptions of character that date back to Aristotle. John Doris draws on behavioral science, especially social psychology, to argue that we misattribute the causes of behavior to personality traits and other fixed aspects of character rather than to the situational context. More often than not it is ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • 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

  • Russell's Philosophy of Logical Analysis, 1897-1905

    by J. Galaugher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he devised to facilitate analyses in mathematics ... 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy

    by William Demopoulos ...
    The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism's principal legacy for ... Read more

    $38.59 USD