When this book was originally published in 1957 there had been lively debates on the air and in the press about the bearing of modern philosophy upon Christianity, but there had been relatively litt……続きを見る
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell’s more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell’s most characteristic and self-revealing books. Writte……続きを見る
著者:Julian Baggini
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年06月27日
Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thoug……続きを見る
Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this……続きを見る
著者:Aristotle
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年02月18日
Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aris……続きを見る
With unusual depth and clarity, it covers the problem of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, the theory and consequences of Einstein's relativity including: relations between theory and……続きを見る
Causality is a key part of many fields and facets of life, from finding the relationship between diet and disease to discovering the reason for a particular stock market crash. Despite centuries of ……続きを見る
Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystalliz……続きを見る
A Course in Miracles can be difficult to understand on first reading as it is written on quite a high intellectual level. It can help to read some introductory material alongside a study of the Cour……続きを見る
著者:Douglas Walton
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and……続きを見る
著者:Gideon Makin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年01月11日
Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The ……続きを見る
Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Wittgenstein in just one hour.
Ludwig Wittgenstein saw himself as ‘the last philosopher’. In his view, philosophy in the trad……続きを見る
Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Aristotle in just one hour.
The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. He had a mind th……続きを見る
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher. He was the founder of pragmatism, the view popularized by William James and John Dewey, that our……続きを見る
著者:D.H. Mellor
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年03月01日
Probability: A Philosophical Introduction introduces and explains the principal concepts and applications of probability. It is intended for philosophers and others who want to understand probabilit……続きを見る
Paraconsistent logic is a theory of reasoning in philosophy that studies inconsistent data. The discipline has several different schools of thought, including preservationism, which responds to the ……続きを見る
著者:Sandra Laugier
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年06月14日
Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language.
Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, respo……続きを見る
著者:Epictetus
出版社: Wilder Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2013年07月12日
No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of……続きを見る
Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Hegel in just one hour.
With Hegel philosophy became very difficult indeed – even the great man himself conceded that ‘only o……続きを見る
著者:Mark Colyvan
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey throu……続きを見る
This third edition, now available in paperback, is a follow up to the author's classic Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory,. It provides an exposition of some of the most imp……続きを見る
"A classic of pure mathematics and symbolic logic ... the publisher is to be thanked for making it available." ー Scientific American
George Boole was on of the greatest mathematicians of the 19th c……続きを見る
著者:J.R. Lucas
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philos……続きを見る
著者:Sissela Bok
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年03月16日
The author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.
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著者:L. T. Hobhouse
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年04月15日
L. T. Hobhouse (1864-1929) was fundamental to the New Liberal movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He authored many important works in the fields of philosophy, economics and……続きを見る
This skit of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell’s correspondent friend Jourdain. The introduction explains that the contents purport to be lost papers written ……続きを見る
Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic, 2nd Edition offers an innovative, friendly, and effective introduction to logic. It integrates formal first order, modal, and non-classical logic with na……続きを見る
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in sou……続きを見る
The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. Krishnamurti and the renowned physicist, David Bohm.
The starting point of their engaging exchange i……続きを見る