Logic - Philosophy Books

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1. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. An Objective Theory of Probability (Routledge Revivals)

   By Donald Gillies

   This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Introduction to Logical Theory

   By P. F. Strawson

   First published in 1952, professor’s Strawson’s highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationship between the behaviour of words in common language and the behaviour of symbols in a logical system. He seeks to explain both the exact nature of the...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Russell vs. Meinong

   The Legacy of "On Denoting"

   Edited by Nicholas Griffin, Dale Jacquette

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

   By James Robert Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

   VII. System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive Vol A

   Edited by John M. Robson

   Series: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

   The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill took thirty years to complete and is acknowledged as the definitive edition of J.S. Mill and as one of the finest works editions ever completed. Mill's contributions to philosophy, economics, and history, and in the roles of scholar, politician and journalist...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Conceptual Roots of Mathematics

   By J.R. Lucas

   Series: International Library of Philosophy

   The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)

   By Hilary Putnam

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the...

   Published October 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Philosophy of Logic (Routledge Revivals)

   By Hilary Putnam

   First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Logic

    Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

    By Paul Livingston

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge