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This book gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural components of philosophy of mathematics and logic. It brought together researchers from many disciplines whose work sheds new light on the diversity of mathematical and logical cultures and practices. In this context, the cultural diversity can be diachronical (different cult...

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism t...

Intended for the first course in logic, this book is written with the conviction that logic is the most important course that college students take. It preserves the balance between informal and formal logic. Layman's direct and accessible writing style, along with his plentiful examples, imaginative exercises, and the accompanying Web tutor make this the best text for logic classes today.

Jacques Lacans Ruckkehr zu Freud ist auch im deutschsprachigen Raum wieder von grosser Aktualitat. Es handelt sich um eine 'philosophische' Ruckkehr. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen zur Metapsychologie (Freud), Epistemologie (von Descartes bis Husserl und Heidegger), Logik (Hegel, Frege, Kripke) und Sozialphilosophie (Althusser) sind der Rekonstruktion der Lacanschen Psychoanalyse und des Verhaltnisses von Psychoanalyse und Philosophie gewidmet. In ihrem Zentrum steht eine logisch-philosophische...

what makes a property intrinsic? What exactly does the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction rest upon, and how can we reasonably justify this distinction? These questions bear great importance on central debates in such diverse philosophical fields as ethics (What is the nature of intrinsic value?), philosophy of mind (Does mental content supervene on internal bodily features?), epistemology (Can intrinsic duplicates differ in the justification of their beliefs?) and philosophy of science (Do the cau...

Critical Thinking is a much-needed guide to thinking skills and above all to thinking critically for oneself. Through clear discussion, students learn the skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. Key features include: *jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation *how to avoid confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion' *how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument *how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning...

In one volume it covers: Unit 1. Credibility of evidence; how context can affect credibility; issues of perception, language, interpretation, and judgement; different types of evidence; results of bias; possible weaknesses and strengths; using a credibility calculus; judging a case. Unit 2. Assessing and developing argument; differences between arguments and other forms of persuasion; what forms arguments can take; the nature of conclusions; assumptions and evidence; evaluating arguments; specia...

"Systematizes and develops in a comprehensive study Nelson Goodman's philosophy of language. The Goodman-Elgin point of view is important and sophisticated, and deals with a number of issues, such as metaphor, ignored by most other theories." --John R. Perry, Stanford University

Logic has attained in our century a development incomparably greater than in any past age of its long history, and this has led to such an enrichment and proliferation of its aspects, that the problem of some kind of unified recom­ prehension of this discipline seems nowadays unavoidable. This splitting into several subdomains is the natural consequence of the fact that Logic has intended to adopt in our century the status of a science. This always implies that the general optics, under which a...

The authors have probed the deepest passages of history, lapped at the lake of human knowledge and plumbed the depths of our shared experience to bring you the truth about oral sex. Why not suck it and see...? Here are two little nuggets of oral wisdom: 'I tripped', said Walter Taylor of Elsmere, Cincinnatti, defending himself against a charge of performing unlawful oral sex on a naked, sleeping woman. (Thanks to The National Enquirer for that one.) OR 'If that's not sex, then the number of time...