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  • Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science

    Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II

    Edited by Jaakko Hintikka, D. Gruender, E. Agazzi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Novum Organum / The New Organon: The True Directions Concerning The Interpretation Of Nature (Mobi Classics)

    by Francis Bacon ...
    The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism. For Bacon, finding the essence of a thing was a simple process of ... Read more

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  • Critical Thinking

    An Appeal to Reason

    by Peg Tittle ...
    In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student’s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes chapters on the nature and structure of argument, ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and Language

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Peirce on Signs

    Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce

    Edited by James Hoopes ...
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as “ideas” but as “signs,” external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Frege Explained

    by Joan Weiner ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What is the number one? How can we be sure that 2+2=4? These apparently ssimple questions have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, but discussion of them was transformed by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925).Frege (pronounced Fray-guh)believed that arithmetic and all mathematics are derived from logic, and to prove this he developed a completely new approach to logic and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Elements of Logical Reasoning

    by Jan von Plato ...
    Some of our earliest experiences of the conclusive force of an argument come from school mathematics: faced with a mathematical proof, we cannot deny the conclusion once the premises have been accepted. Behind such arguments lies a more general pattern of 'demonstrative arguments' that is studied in the science of logic. Logical reasoning is applied at all levels, from everyday life to advanced ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • If A, Then B

    How the World Discovered Logic

    by Michael Shenefelt, Heidi White ...
    While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

    Selected Essays

    by Charles Parsons ...
    In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century.Parsons begins with a discussion of the Kantian legacy in the work of L. E. J. Brouwer, David Hilbert, and Paul Bernays, shedding light on how Bernays revised his philosophy after his collaboration with Hilbert. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Thinker's Book of Dangerous Knowledge

    by Peter Rogers ...
    WARNINGDo not pick this book up. This book is extremely dangerous. It is also incredibly offensive. This book may even attempt to bite you when you’re not looking.This book will make you think. And that is always a dangerous thing.Do not open it up. Do not read it straight through at one sitting, utterly mesmerized by the thought-provoking, life-changing, paradigm-shifting content therein. The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Could there have been Nothing?

    Against Metaphysical Nihilism

    by Geraldine Coggins ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all? No physical universe, no people, no living beings, no planets, no atoms, no matter, no energy - nothing? ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals

    Formal and Empirical Approaches

    by Igor Douven ...
    Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD