Philosophy: Logic

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

THE ELEMENTS OF REASONING is a concise and lucid introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to un...

Paolo Mancosu provides an original investigation of historical and systematic aspects of the notions of abstraction and infinity and their interact...

This book is unique in its treatment of critical thinking not as a body of knowledge but instead as a subject for critical reflection. The purpose ...

In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win a...

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published on...

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not...

The thirteenth-century logician Lambert of Auxerre was well known for his Summa Lamberti, or simply Logica, written in the mid-1250s, which became ...

The history of logic and its development during the medieval period. Radulphus Britos Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major wor...

From Aristotle to Cicero: Essays in Ancient Philosophy draws together a selection of Gisela Striker's essays from the last forty years in the areas...

This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating...

Everyone thinks. But what does it mean to think critically? And what does it mean to create a good or a bad argument? In an age of fast technologic...