Offers a comprehensive introduction to modal logics and their application suitable for course use. This book places its emphasis on showing how useful modal logic can be as a tool for formal philosophical analysis. It explores the applications of modal logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, processes, and knowledge and belief.

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An introduction to modern formal logic, this book explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how it deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time, to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Each chapter takes some philosophical problem, and explains how it may be handled in modern logic.

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Thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going. New trends are revealed, such as an increasing attention to mathematical practice, a reassessment of the canon, and inspiration from philosophical logic.

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This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

G W F Hegel's so-called speculative logic was revolutionary since it attacked the basic laws of Aristotelian logic - which stood as the foundation for the field for well over a millennium. In the 1830s this highly controversial theory was attacked by philosophers in Germany and Prussia. This volume includes the main texts in this controversy.

Provides a guide to using logic in order to win arguments. This book shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people's arguments. It also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it.

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First published in English in 1959, Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge and is one of the most widely read books about science written in the 20th century.

Follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. This title takes you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology.

Offers topical examples and scenarios covering current affairs and moral, social, ethical and philosophical issues to make Critical Thinking really come alive for your students. This student book helps to meet the needs of your students' abilities by providing examples and activities that practise each skill at different levels.

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Tailored to meet the OCR specifications, this student book features an Exam Cafe which aims to motivate students and help them to prepare thoroughly for their exams. It guides the reader step-by-step through the course. It covers the two AS level units.

While science offers a wealth of rational explanations for natural phenomena, we often prefer to embrace the fantasies that reassured our distant ancestors. This book encourages us to transcend the mental default settings and tribal loyalties that worked well for our ancestors back in the Pleistocene age.

Part 1 of the 'Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences' with the 'Zusatze'. Translated, with introduction and notes, by T.F. Geraets.

Noam Chomsky is as controversial as he is prolific, applying a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. Chomsky's best known innovations involve the groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, the revolution it initiated in cognitive science, and a radical reformulation of political theory and practice.In Chomsky Notebook, Cedric Boeckx (Harva

A guide to argument analysis. It presents an introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. It tells how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion'; how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument; and, how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad.