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A Treatise on Induction and Probability

A Treatise on Induction and Probability

1st Edition

By Georg Henrik Von Wright
November 15, 2010

First published in 2000. This present book is primarily a treatise on induction. As such its aim is to examine, in the light of standards of logical correctness, various types of argument which can be grouped under the common heading of induction....

Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety

Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety

1st Edition

By J.P. Anton
November 15, 2010

This is Volume I of ten of a series on Ancient Philosophy. Originally published in 1957, the present volume is the result of several years of research in ancient philosophy. It began with the main purpose of elucidating the theme of contrariety and the role it played in the Aristotelian treatises ...

Charles Peirce's Empiricism

Charles Peirce's Empiricism

1st Edition

By Justus Buchler
December 13, 2010

This is Volume I of six in a series on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy. Originally published in 1939, this study looks Charles Peirce, who characterized himself as a mere table of contents, so abstract, a very snarl of twine. The purpose of the following pages is to ...

Ethical Relativity

Ethical Relativity

1st Edition

By Edward Westermarck
November 15, 2010

This is Volume of VI Of six in a series on Ethic and Political Philosophy. Originally published in 1932, this study looks at how the emotional origin of moral judgments consistently leads to a denial of the objective validity ascribed to them both by common sense and by normative theories of ethics....

Logical Studies

Logical Studies

1st Edition

By Georg Henrik Von Wright
November 15, 2010

First published in 2000. In this volume are eight essays; with the first three essays deal with the problem of logical truth. Their aim is to elucidate what is meant by saying that logical truth is formal-dependent of form and independent of content-or that logical truth is tautologous. The next is...

Misuse of Mind A Study of Bergson's Attack on Intellectualism

Misuse of Mind: A Study of Bergson's Attack on Intellectualism

1st Edition

By Karin Stephen
November 15, 2010

This is Volume IV of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1922, this study looks at Henri Bergson's (nineteenth century French Philosopher) attack on intellectualism and his aim to direct attention to the reality which he believes we all actually know already, ...

Chance, Love, and Logic Philosophical Essays

Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays

1st Edition

By Charles S. Peirce
November 15, 2010

First published in 2000. This is volume VI in the VI-volume set titled Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy. In the essays gathered in this volume, the editors have the most developed and coherent available account of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, whom the leading ...

History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period

History of Chinese Political Thought: During the Early Tsin Period

1st Edition

By Liang Chi-Chao
December 07, 2010

This is Volume III of six in a series on Ethics and Political Philosophy. Originally published in 1930, this takes the early Tsin period and looks at the history of Chinese political thought. It is based on the notes of lectures which Mr. Liang Chi-Chao delivered first at the College of Law and ...

Scientism Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science

Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science

1st Edition

By Tom Sorell
May 31, 1994

First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and Descartes up to the naturalized epistemology of Quine that the clearest statements of the scientistic ...

State Punishment

State Punishment

1st Edition

By Nicola Lacey
November 07, 1994

Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no ...

Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness

2nd Edition

By Daniel C. Dennett
October 16, 1986

First published in 2002. In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind. His work over the last twenty years and more, culminating in his major study, Consciousness Explained, has increased rather than diminished the power of his...

The Rationality of Science

The Rationality of Science

1st Edition

By W.H. Newton-Smith
November 15, 1981

A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist perspective....

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