…confirmation which includes probability. Quine’s extensionalism does not account for this fact and then seems unrealistic, even if science ought to be extensional in so far as it is descriptive…
The Logic Book
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…
Proof Theory: Sequent Calculi and Related Formalisms
Publisher’s Note: Although sequent calculi constitute an important category of proof systems, they are not as well known as axiomatic and natural deduction systems. Addressing this deficiency, Proof Theory: Sequent Calculi…
Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
…just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink the canon. Yet attempts to broaden European and Anglophone philosophy…
Exorcising Hegel’s ghost: Africa’s challenge to philosophy
…point come upon the presence of a peculiar absence: the absence of Africa from the discourse of philosophy. In the basic areas of philosophy (e.g.. epistemology, metaphysics, axiology, and logic)…
Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings
…appropriate insights from the fields of literature, theology, philosophy, gender and cultural studies. Beginning with a general introduction, part one explores important approaches to the feminist philosophy of religion, including…
The Art and Philosophy of George Eliot
…to write novels rather than conventional philosophy reflects her desire to actively engage the imaginative and affective, as well as the cognitive, powers of her readers. On her view the…
“Early Daoist Philosophy: Dao, Language and Society”.
This chapter – taken from the first edition of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy – presents a comprehensive introduction to key ideas and arguments in early Daoist philosophy….
Philosophy of Science: A very short introduction
…the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with a short history of science to set the scene, Samir Okasha goes on to investigate the nature of scientific reasoning,…
Dao Companion to the Analects
Publisher’s note: This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic, the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to…