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michael shenefelt

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  • If A, Then B

    How the World Discovered Logic

    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

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  • Logic

    The Laws of Truth

    Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and mathematics. This book provides an exceptionally clear introduction to classical logic, with a unique approach that emphasizes both the hows and whys of logic. Here Nicholas Smith thoroughly covers the formal tools and techniques of logic while also imparting a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • On Dreams (Illustrated Edition)

    by Aristotle ...
    Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Socratic Method as a way to argue and debate points rationally. Still, Aristotle was very much his ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    A Beginner's Guide

    by John J. Ross ...
    Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations*: A Beginners Guide* is written for anyone who faces the challenge of reading Philosophical Investigations. John J. Ross guides the reader slowly through each relevant section of text, explaining and elaborating key ideas, and providing the philosophical and biographical background that illuminates the problems Wittgenstein is addressing. Reading ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Logic of Real Arguments

    by Alec Fisher ...
    This new and expanded edition of The Logic of Real Arguments explains a distinctive method for analysing and evaluating arguments. It discusses many examples, ranging from newspaper articles to extracts from classic texts, and from easy passages to much more difficult ones. It shows students how to use the question 'What argument or evidence would justify me in believing P?', and also how to deal ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Substructural Logics

    by Greg Restall ...
    This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term 'susbstructural'. Substructural logics have independently led to significant developments in philosophy, computing and linguistics. An Introduction to Substrucural Logics is the first book to systematically survey the new results and the significant impact that this class of logics has had on a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Complete Lojban Language

    by John W Cowan ...
    The Complete Lojban Language is a complete description of the artificial language Lojban. It serves as a reference grammar for the language, offering an overview of the language, as well as linguistic details on every aspect of the language. This book serves as the standard defining the language design.Though this description may sound imposing, technical and formal, the book is written in a light ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics

    Horizons of Truth

    This volume commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel (1906–78), most famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of first-order logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency - with the other widely accepted axioms of set theory - of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis. It explores current research, advances and ideas for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Introducing Bertrand Russell

    A Graphic Guide

    Series series Graphic Guides
    Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Argumentation Machines

    New Frontiers in Argument and Computation

    Edited by C. Reed, T.J. Norman ...
    Series Book 9 - Argumentation Library
    In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term 'argumentation' within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al's interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of ten inspired) ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory

    Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This title links two of the most dominant research streams in philosophy of logic, namely game theory and proof theory. As the work’s subtitle expresses, the authors will build this link by means of the dialogical approach to logic. One important aspect of the present study is that the authors restrict themselves to the logically valid fragment of Constructive Type Theory (CTT). The reason is that ... Read more

    $49.99 USD