Summary: This book is an introductory textbook on mathematical logic. It covers Propositional Logic and Predicate Logic. For each of these formalisms it presents its syntax and formal semantics as well…
Banal Skepticism and the Errors of Doubt: On Ephecticism about Rape Accusations
…for belief that are too demanding, for example, and underestimate how farfetched uneliminated error possibilities are. They mistake seeing how incriminating evidence is compatible with innocence for a reason to…
Metaphysics: An Introduction
Publisher’s note: <em>Metaphysics: An Introduction</em> combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of…
Political music and the politics of music
Introduction: On September 24th, 1947, a composer with “an international reputation” became the first Holly wood artist to be called before the Committee on Un-American Activities [HUAC]. The charge against…
A Kripkean approach to the identity of a work of art
…has the work of art in his mind. In fact he has before his mind a perfect image, complete in every detail, of the statue which will result from his…
Some group matters: Intersectionality, situated standpoints, and Black feminist thought
…more visibly organized geographic, symbolic, and political space assigned to African- Americans, the links between a group’s common positionality in power relations, the shared experiences that accompanied this commonality, the…
Values in Social Science
Introduction: The social sciences have long had an inferiority complex. Because the social sciences emerged as distinct disciplines after the natural sciences, comparisons between the mature and successful natural sciences…