The Element presents an account of theory-choice in logic, logical predictivism, motivated by actual logical practice, which suggests that the mechanisms of theory-choice in logic are not that different to those in the recognised sciences. This titl...Loe edasi...
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. According to the pluralist, some rival logics are both correct in...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Wittgensteins critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations, which presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to thi...Loe edasi...
Cosmology and astrophysics provide a unique resource for philosophers of science. This Cambridge Element surveys the existing literature, identifies areas for future research, and highlights how philosophy of cosmology and astrophysics have implicat...Loe edasi...
This Element mentions that the traditional view, non-traditional view, and non-traditional approaches of self-deception are problematic. Self-deception is never accidental or a mistake. Self-deceivers need not benefit from deception, and they need n...Loe edasi...
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
This Element analyzes Kants metaphysics and epistemology of the exact science of nature. It explains his theory of true motion and ontology of matter. In addition, it reconstructs the patterns of evidential reasoning behind Kants foundational doctr...Loe edasi...
