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  • Logics and Falsifications

    A New Perspective on Constructivist Semantics

    by Andreas Kapsner ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume examines the concept of falsification as a central notion of semantic theories and its effects on logical laws. The point of departure is the general constructivist line of argument that Michael Dummett has offered over the last decades. From there, the author examines the ways in which falsifications can enter into a constructivist semantics, displays the full spectrum of options, and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 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

    $64.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought

    by Y. Iczkovits ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Logic and Lexicon

    The Semantics of the Indefinite

    Translated by Geoffrey Simmons ...
    by Manfred Pinkal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential for ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Narration as Argument

    Edited by Paula Olmos ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • On Reasoning and Argument

    Essays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking

    by David Hitchcock ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation.Among other things, the author:• develops an account of “material consequence” that permits ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Words and Objections

    Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine

    Edited by D. Davidson, Jaakko Hintikka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Kazimierz Opałek Selected Papers in Legal Philosophy

    Edited by Jan Wolenski ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Philosophical aspects of law and jurisprudence are investigated from various points of view. This collection represents the analytic approach to legal philosophy. However, this approach is not extreme in the sense that it is limited exclusively to linguistic matters. The concept of norm as a directive of conduct is the central category analyzed in particular essays. The structure of directives as ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness

    Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules

    by Bert Meuffels, Bart Garssen, Frans H. van Eemeren ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the University of Amsterdam, their home ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Giving Reasons

    A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory

    by Lilian Bermejo Luque ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result is a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

    Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

    by Pavel Materna, Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons. Firstly, Transparent Intensional Logic is a theory without something like a textbook. Now this is not an actual textbook, if a textbook ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD