Product Description: Argumentation is all around us. Letters to the Editor often make points of cons- tency, and “Why” is one of the most frequent questions in language, asking for r- sons behind behaviour. And argumentation is more than ‘reasoning’ in the recesses of single minds, since it crucially involves interaction...read more

Product Description: Ibn Rushd (1126-1198), better known as Averroes, is said to be the greatest among the Muslim commentators on Aristotle and is especially known for his influence on medieval Christendom and on medieval and Renaissance science and philosophy...read more

Product Description: Is reality logical and is logic real? What is the origin of logical intuitions? What is the role of logical structures in the operations of an intelligent mind and in communication? Is the function of logical structure regulative or constitutive or both in concept formation? This volume provides analyses of the logic-reality relationship from different approaches and perspectives...read more

Product Description: The first book in English to offer a systematic survey of Bolzano's philosophical logic and theory of knowledge, it offers a reconstruction of Bolzano's views on a series of key issues: the analysis of meaning, generality, analyticity, logical consequence, mathematical demonstration and knowledge by virtue of meaning...read more

Berlin's intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and the fragility of human freedom premeates essays ranging from his early debates on logical positivism to his later work.

Product Description: A comprehensive investigation of the sentence connectives―and, or, if, not―with special attention to their logical properties.In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone examines the semantics and pragmatics of natural language sentence connectives (and, or, if, not), giving special attention to their formal behavior according to proposed logical systems and the degree to which such treatments capture their intuitive meanings...read more

An introduction to world politics, this text explains eight major forces of global transformation, focusing on the dynamics of change. It covers issues of political economy and global public policy, and analyzes the collapse of communism in Central Europe and the changes in East-West relations.

Product Description: Integrating Logic Skills into the Critical Decision-Making Process   Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to detect fallacies and how to examine and construct cogent arguments...read more

Gives advice on selecting the caterer, entertainment, photographer, flowers and invitations for a bar or bat mitzvah, and discusses the religious significance of the occasion

Product Description: David the Invincible s (6th century AD) "Commentary on Aristotle's" Prior Analytics survives only in an old Armenian translation from Greek. Its critical edition with a Russian translation (1967) was based on the editio princeps of Venice (1833) and five manuscripts of the Matenadaran (Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Erevan)...read more

Product Description: La philosophie occidentale s'est toujours pensee comme quete de verite. Pour Socrate et les Megariques cette quete releve du logos, mieux de la pratique du dialogue. Mobilisant les outils analytiques de la logique et de la philosophie du langage contemporaine, on propose ici de: 1) definir pragmatiquement les actes veridictionnels d'assertion, de denegation, de desengagement qu'est la simple consideration en axiomatisant leurs relations mutuelles d'opposition; 2) construire une logique dialogique de la veridicite apte a rendre compte aussi bien de la demonstration de la validite formelle que de l'elaboration conjointe de la verite materielle prosaique; 3) determiner les conditions praxeologiques d'etablissement du vrai propres aux differents registres de veridicite...read more

Elementary Logic explains what logic is, how it is done, and why it can be exciting. The book covers the central part of logic that all students have to learn: propositional logic. It aims to provide a crystal-clear introduction to what is often regarded as the most technically difficult area in philosophy. The book opens with an explanation of what logic is and how it is constructed. Subsequent chapters take the reader step-by-step through all aspects of elementary logic. Throughout, ideas are explained simply and directly, with the chapters packed with overviews, illustrative examples, and summaries. Each chapter builds on previous explanation and example, with the final chapters presenting more advanced methods. After a discussion of meta-logic and logical systems, the book closes with an exploration of how paradoxes can exist in the world of logic. Elementary Logic's clarity and engagement make it ideal for any reader studying logic for the first time.