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Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher
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Dale Jacquette
Dale Jacquette charts the development of Schopenhauer’s ideas from the time of his early dissertation on The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason through the two editions of…
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Clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic.
This study of David Hume’s philosophy of mathematics critically examines his objections to the concept of infinity. He proposes to replace the notion of infinity with an alternative phenomenalist theory…
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls truth telling in the public interest
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This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of…
The philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist is one of the core concerns of metaphysics. This is an introduction to ontology that provides…
One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by the author himself, Dale Jacquette presents a fictional dialogue over a three-day period on the ethical complexities of capital punishment…
This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic. Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of…
This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the…
It considers the history and philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophical semantics, and artificial intelligence.
Dale Jacquette,Dale Jacquette
Franz Brentano led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. This volume offers newly commissioned chapters on the range of his work…
This collection of essays examines the unique theory which Schopenhauer developed to explain the life and work of the artist, and the influence which his aesthetic philosophy has had on…
Dale Jacquette’s lively and incisive biography charts Frege’s life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker…
This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic. Areas of coverage include classical logic; truth, propositions and meaning; quantifiers and quantificational theory…
A collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic. Areas of coverage include: logic; truth, propositions and meaning; quantifiers and quantificational theory; validity, inference and entailment; and…
Explores the central problems and the most intriguing new directions in the philosophy of mathematics. The papers are organized thematically, rather than chronologically, to give the best overview of philosophical…
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls truth telling in the public interest. With 31 case…
Professor Dale Jacquette (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Suitable for use on undergraduate courses, this title gives an introduction to the philosophy of mind. It covers key topics and debates in the philosophy of mind. It offers a…
Suitable for use on undergraduate courses, this work presents an introduction to the philosophy of mind. It covers the key topics and debates in the philosophy of mind. It offers…
A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues. This erudite volume provides an overview of the latest scholarship on Russell and Meinong, as well as detailed…
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George Berkeley
Berkeley’s Three Dialogues are presented with a substantial introduction and critical apparatus that make it an edition that is particularly well-suited to the classroom.
Dale Jacquette (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University)
This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the…
The theory of oppositions based on Aristotelian foundations of logic has been pictured in a striking square diagram which can be understood and applied in many different ways having repercussions…
John Woods,Douglas Walton
In the past forty years there has been a revolution in logic. There is a widening consensus that mathematical logic has not been a satisfactory theory of argumentation, where argumentation…
Liliana Albertazzi,Dale Jacquette,Roberto Poli
A historical and conceptual reconstruction of the theories developed at the turn of the 19th century by a group of philosophers and experimental psychologists led by Alexius Meinong. It seeks…
Gottlob Frege
Part of the Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy, this edition of Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of…
The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical…
From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history…
John-Stewart Gordon, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan’s A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan’s claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical…
The IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications (FLAP) covers all areas of pure and applied logic, broadly construed. All papers published are open access, and available via the College…
