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  • Conceptual Issues in Ecology

    Edited by Esa. Saarinen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In this collection of essays, some of the leading ecologists and philosophers discuss the foundations of ecology and evolutionary biology. While large scale philosophical convictions and attitudes often direct the theorist's line of concrete action in data collection and in theory information, the founda tional convictions typically remain tacit, and are seldom argued for. The present collection ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Processes, Beliefs, and Questions

    Essays on Formal Semantics of Natural Language and Natural Language Processing

    Edited by S. Peters, Esa. Saarinen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    SECTION I In 1972, Donald Davison and Gilbert Hannan wrote in the introduction to the volume Semantics of Natural Language: "The success of linguistics in treating natural languages as formal ~yntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a parallel or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independently, many philosophers and logicians have recently been ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
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  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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  • Theodicy

    by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ...
    # Theodicy ### Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz **If God is perfectly good, why does evil exist? And if this is the best of all possible worlds, how can we explain its suffering?** In *Theodicy*, the great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz confronts one of humanity's most profound and enduring mysteries: the relationship between divine goodness, human freedom, and the existence of evil. First ... Read more

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  • Logic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Graham Priest ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability ... Read more

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  • Forever Undecided

    by Raymond M. Smullyan ...
    Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems.With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports us once again to that magical island where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Here we meet ... Read more

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  • The Devil in Modern Philosophy

    by Ernest Gellner ...
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. ... Read more

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  • Abductive Reasoning

    by Mr. Douglas Walton ...
    A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidenceExamines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, ... Read more

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  • One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb

    by Hans van Ditmarsch, Barteld Kooi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    A group of 100 prisoners, all together in the prison dining area, are told that they will be all put in isolation cells and then will be interrogated one by one in a room containing a light with an on/off switch. The prisoners may communicate with one another by toggling the light switch (and that is the only way in which they can communicate). The light is initially switched off. There is no ... Read more

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  • On Translation

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important?Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the works of the great philosophers are often only ever read in translation, Ricoeur reminds us that translation not only ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Hegel

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    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nigel Blackwood ...
    Translated by William Wallace ...
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