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  • Thinking to Some Purpose

    by Susan Stebbing ...
    "I am convinced of the urgent need for a democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognized ignorance. Our failures in thinking are in part due to faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise. It is the aim of this book to make a small effort in this direction." - Susan Stebbing, from the PrefaceDespite ... Read more

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  • How to Think Clearly

    by Susan Stebbing ...
    Series series Pelican Archive
    Written in the shadow of war, this classic manual for clear thinking shows us the power of logic in refusing dogma, propaganda, and dictatorship. It serves as a timeless reminder to harness our critical abilities to defy crowd mentality and honour the inextricable link between democracy and our freedom of mind. ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism and French Voluntarism

    with Especial Reference to the Notion of Truth in the Development of French Philosophy from Maine de Biran to Professor Bergson

    by L. Susan Stebbing ...
    Pragmatism and French Voluntarism, published in January 1914, is the doctoral thesis of Susan Stebbing, who was the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom. It is an account of the epistemological ideas that were widespread and widely discussed in the early twentieth century: it introduces us methodically into the world of American pragmatism and of the many French currents of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: A Modern Elementary Logic (1952)

    by L. Susan Stebbing ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1943, and revised for this 1952 edition, this book was intended for use by students of philosophy and as such traditional and modern developments in logic have been combined in a unified treatment. The author envisaged this volume as filling a gap for a simple, introductory text on formal logic, written from a modern point of view, unencumbered by traditional doctrine. This ... Read more

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  • Logic in Practice

    by L. Susan Stebbing ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Logic
    Originally published in 1934. This fourth edition originally published 1954., revised by C. W. K. Mundle."It must be the desire of every reasonable person to know how to justify a contention which is of sufficient importance to be seriously questioned. The explicit formulation of the principles of sound reasoning is the concern of Logic".This book discusses the habit of sound reasoning which is ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and the Physicists

    by L. Susan Stebbing ...
    In 1937 Susan Stebbing published Philosophy and the Physicists, an in-depth analysis of the works written for the general public by two physicists then at the center of attention in England and the world, James Jeans (1877-1946) and Arthur Eddington (1882-1944). The latter, as is known, in 1919 had announced to the Royal Society the astronomical observations that were then considered experimental ... Read more

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  • Revival: A Modern Introduction to Logic (1950)

    by Lizzie Susan Stebbing ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    As the author of this volume states, "the science of logic does not stand still." This book was intended to cover the advances made in the study of logic in the first half of the nineteenth century, during which time the author felt there to have been greater advances made than in the whole of the preceding period from the time of Aristotle. Advances which, in her eyes, were not present in ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Revival: Philosophy and the Physicists (1937)

    by Lizzie Susan Stebbing ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book is written by a philosopher for other philosophers and for that section of the reading public who buy in large quantities and, no doubt, devour with great earnestness the popular books written by scientists for their enlightenment. We common readers, to adapt a phrase from Samuel Johnson, are fitted neither to criticize physical theories not to decide what precisely are their ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed ... Read more

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  • The Uses of Argument

    by Stephen E. Toulmin ...
    A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of topics, brought up in everyday life or in academic research, can be rationally justified. Is there one universal system of norms, by which all sorts of arguments in all sorts of fields must be judged, or ... Read more

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    Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It is a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology. ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

    and Other Essays

    by Albert Einstein ...
    E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many layers of scientific theory that formed a starting point for his discoveries. By both supporting and refuting ... Read more

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