Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.Presents controversies...
Author: Vorobej, Mark Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Theory of Argument is an advanced textbook intended for students in philosophy, communications studies and linguistics who have completed at least one course in argumentation theory, information log...
Author: Freeman, James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When, if ever, is one justified in accepting the premises of an argument? What is the proper criterion of premise acceptability? Can the criterion be theoretically or philosophically justified? This ...
Author: Shand, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A lucid introduction to the nature of good reasoning and how to test and construct good arguments. It assumes no prior knowledge of logic or philosophy. The book includes an accessible introduction to...
Author: Shand, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are arguments for? How do they work and how do they fail? "Arguing Well "gives a lucid introduction to the nature of arguments and provides a guide on when to implement reason. It explains the pr...
Author: Halbach, Volker Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At the centre of the traditional discussion of truth is the question of how truth is defined. Recent research, especially with the development of deflationist accounts of truth, has tended to take tru...
Description: Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "resolute" reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "resolute" reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized...
Author: Thomson, Anne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do other people's arguments tie you in knots? Do you lack the confidence in your ability to reason? Do you assume that everything written in newspapers must be true? We all engage in the process of r...
Description: In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation - skills that should underpin every stude...
Author: Tindale,Christopher W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fa...
Author: Lambert, Karel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Free logic is an important field of philosophical logic that first appeared in the 1950s. J. Karel Lambert was one of its founders and coined the term itself. The essays in this collection (written ov...
Author: Walton, Douglas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in d...
Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new translation of The Science of Logic (also known as 'Greater Logic') includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813), and Book III (1816). Recent research has given us a detailed picture of...
Author: Antonelli, Aldo Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a title on the foundations of defeasible logic, which explores the formal properties of everyday reasoning patterns whereby people jump to conclusions, reserving the right to retract them in t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Open Court Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Open Court Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as ...
Author: Walton,Douglas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Wal...
Author: Smith, Nicholas J.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 introdu...
Author: Boutelle, Tony / Gibilisco, Stan Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Making sense of LOGIC just got a whole lot EASIER!Stumped trying to understand logic? It's time to listen to reason! There's no doubt that Logic Demystified will help you master this challenging subje...
Author: Boutelle, Tony / Gibilisco, Stan Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Making sense of LOGIC just got a whole lot EASIER!Stumped trying to understand logic? It's time to listen to reason! There's no doubt that Logic Demystified will help you master this challenging subje...
Author: Bennett, Bo Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logi...
Author: Walton,Douglas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and marke...
Author: Agassi,Joseph / Meidan,Abraham Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the questions that philosophers discuss is: How can we avoid, or at least reduce, errors when explaining the world? The skeptical answer to this question is: We cannot avoid errors since no sta...
Description: This work by Aristotle influenced great philosophers like Marx, Hegel and others. The work is deceptively simple and expounds on the philosophy of science, logic and epistemology. It discusses the pro...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: "There is nothing in the in...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: "There is nothing in the in...
Author: Epstein, Richard L Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students. The body of each essay gives the main development of the subject...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Which objects and properties are represented in perceptual experience, and how are we able to determine this? The papers in this collection address these questions together with other fundamental ques...
Description: Which objects and properties are represented in perceptual experience, and how are we able to determine this? The papers in this collection address these questions together with other fundamental ques...
Description: This work by Aristotle presents his theories on "substance" and "being". He believed in the individual entity of things. His ideas are presented brilliantly in this work. Attacking the theories of Pla...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings include philosophy, logic, rhetoric, government, biology and zoology. The Catagories explains how every object can ...
Author: Hart, W. D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed ...
Author: Cooper, William S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that biology and logic may be intimately interrelated. In th...
Author: Buzaglo, Meir Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The operation of developing a concept is a common procedure in mathematics and in natural science, but has traditionally seemed much less possible to philosophers and, especially, logicians. Meir Buza...
Author: Epstein, Richard L Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. The extraordinarily clear explanations in the Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking provide the essential skills to reason better-for classwor...
Author: Toulmin, Stephen E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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...
Author: Gardner, Susan Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thinking Your Way to Freedom is a critical-thinking textbook with a difference. Rather than focusing exclusively on improving college students' academic achievement, Susan Gardner seeks to dramaticall...
