"This book is devoted to the problem of the Master Argument - a historical argument of the Greek philosopher Diodorus Cronus. Since the original argument was lost, many contemporary logicians have tried to recreate it, using modern tools of logic. The objective of Diodorus' argu…
"This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author's original account of necessitarianism encourages a re-examination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is …
"This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author's original account of necessitarianism encourages a re-examination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is …
"This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author's original account of necessitarianism encourages a re-examination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is …
"It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation between one person's be…
"It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation between one person's be…
It is impossible to hold contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Eric Marcus examines the nature of belief and inference, in light of the phenomenon of rational necessity, to reveal how the unity of the rational mind is a function of our knowledge of ourselves as bound t…
"John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe : induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution that involves the postulati…
John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe - induction, laws of nature and the existence of God.
John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe - induction, laws of nature and the existence of God.
"John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution that involves the postulatio…
The principal claims advanced in Saul Kripke's classic 1972 work, Naming and Necessity, quickly acquired the status of largely uncontested tenets in the philosophy of language and logic. Jay Rosenberg belongs to the minority of scholars who have maintained a more skeptical attit…
