Charles Sanders Peirce is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as ideas but as signs…
This proceedings volume contains 30 papers dealing with the history, literature and ideas of the logico-epistemological school of Indian Buddhism initiated by Dignaga and Dharmakirti, and related currents in South Asia (India), Tibet and East Asia (China). The papers address his…
Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and cognitive science. In this volume, Viale and colleagues explore which human social cognitive powers evolve naturally and which are influenced by culture. Updating the debate betwe…
In the Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God, prepared just before his death, Hegel states that the question of proving God can receive its ""scientific"" treatment in the (Science of) Logic and nowhere else. He also states that Logic, at least his logical system, is th…
In the Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God, prepared just before his death, Hegel states that the question of proving God can receive its ""scientific"" treatment in the (Science of) Logic and nowhere else. He also states that Logic, at least his logical system, is th…
"Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that might or might not belong …
This successful textbook on logic, now in its fourth edition, features a time-tested design. The work can be profitably read by beginning students of logic as well as students of other fields with prior knowledge of mathematics or formal semantics. Practice exercises cover all o…
"A noticeable shift in focus has occurred in public discourse from 'What is our best course of action?' to 'What are the true facts of the situation?' At the center of these debates are questions on the proper use of evidence, Legal scholar Schauer offers clarity based on how le…
"This book presents an historical and conceptual reconstruction of the theories developed by Meinong and a group of philosophers and experimental psychologists in Graz at the turn of the 19th century. Adhering closely to original texts, the contributors explore Meinong's roots i…
Introduction to logic
"For more than six decades, and for thousands of students, Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this 15th Edition, Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi's classic text, improving on its many strengths and introducing new a…
"Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce's grammatical writings from his early research o…
"Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce's grammatical writings from his early research o…
"Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce's grammatical writings from his early research o…
The impact of Aristotle cannot be overestimated, covering not only the "first philosophy", which later was to become "metaphysics", but several different areas, ranging from ethics and politics to rhetoric and poetry. A special status belongs to the fundamentals of thinking, tre…