Logic - Philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. It presents a systematic argument that the primary subject matter of logic is our linguistic interaction rather than our private reasoning and it is thus misle..

Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students of metaphysics and philosophy...

The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career...

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the theo..

In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He shows how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the prob..

This monograph reappraises the role of Bertrand Russell's philosophical works in establishing the analytical tradition in philosophy...

This monograph reappraises the role of Bertrand Russell's philosophical works in establishing the analytical tradition in philosophy...