Philosophy: Products

By Anthony Palmer

Originally published in 1988. This text gives a lucid account of the most distinctive and influential responses by twentieth century philosophers to the problem of the unity of the proposition. The problem first became central to twentieth-century philosophy as a result of the depsychoiogising of…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Andrew Paul Ushenko

Originally published in 1941. Professor Ushenko treats of current problems in technical Logic, involving Symbolic Logic to a marked extent. He deprecates the tendency, in influential quarters, to regard Logic as a branch of Mathematics and advances the intuitionalist theory of Logic. This involves…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By William Angus Sinclair

Originally published in 1937. A short account of the traditional logic, intended to provide the student with the fundamentals necessary for the specialized study. Suitable for working through individualy, it will provide sufficient knowledge of the elements of the subject to understand materials on…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By L. Jonathan Cohen

Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for analysing inductive support for hypotheses and…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Horace M. Kallen

Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by founder of the New School for Social Research in New York, Horace M. Kallen, touches on topics from language to death and from freedom to value. The author’s treatise explores his understanding of logic and existence.…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By P. H. Nidditch

Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic, no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle, the idea of all the parts of mathematics as systems…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Humphrey Palmer

Originally published in 1985. This book is about a single famous line of argument, pioneered by Descartes and deployed to full effect by Kant. That argument was meant to refute scepticism once and for all, and make the world safe for science. 'I think, so I exist’ is valid reasoning, but circular…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Richard Robinson

Originally published in 1931. This inquiry investigates and develops John Cook Wilson’s view of the province of logic. It bases the study on the posthumous collected papers Statement and Inference. The author seeks to answer questions on the nature of logic using Cook Wilson’s thought. The chapters…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Nicholas Rescher

Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher’s aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a "logic of truth-functional statement compounds" or a "logic of quantifiers". The object is to present a tolerably accurate and…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By David Mitchell

Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument. In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show how far that aim has been…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Logic

By Alan Haworth

When Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin first came to power in the 1930s, their regimes were considered by many to represent a new and perplexing phenomenon. They were labelled ‘totalitarian’. But is ‘totalitarianism’ genuinely new, or is the word just another name for something old and familiar, namely…

Hardback – 2019-12-04 
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Philosophy

Edited by Kevin Vallier, Joshua Rasmussen

In response to the intellectual movement of New Atheism, this volume articulates a "New Theist" response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue. To ensure this book is of interest to atheists and theists alike, a team of experts in the field of philosophy…

Hardback – 2019-12-05 
Routledge
Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies