Philosophy: Logic

This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported...

A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosop...

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse v...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature and role of hypothetical reasoning about impossibilities. The interest in this subject stems ...

This is the first book focused on the logico-philosophical aspects of the lambda-calculus since the inception of the field in 1932 in the pioneerin...

Drawing a line, and then another, and another. Go back from the lines to the movements they capture and see gestures in them: not spatial displacem...

The leading idea of epistemology in the Enlightenment tradition was foundation-theoretic: to reach knowledge, we must not legitimize our beliefs by...

This book explores a cluster of philosophical, historical, and logical problems concerning the foundations of the theory of plane area in elementar...

This volume features more than 20 essays that explore the work of one of the most important contemporary philosophers of mathematics. It will help ...

In this Beginners Guide, Peter Hacker, the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and author of a dozen books on his work, introduces ...

In this Beginners Guide, Peter Hacker, the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and author of a dozen books on his work, introduces ...

This book investigates the historical development of Aristotles perfect syllogism, or demonstration, into the Muslim world. It provides an accessib...

This book brings together contemporary work on relevant logics to showcase the recent progress of the field and set the stage for future research. ...

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomskys internalism, namely to ...

Samson Abramskys wide-ranging contributions to logical and structural aspects of Computer Science have had a major influence on the field. This boo...