Although there are no formal prerequisities, facility in formal reasoning (such as employed in mathematics or statistics) will be presupposed. 1. Deductive Logic. Philosophy is centrally concerned ...

THIS book, by two American teachers of philosophy, helps to show how far ... did much for the reshaping of the old formal logic, and for the development of an inductive logic which brought the ...

The development of logic has therefore paralleled the development of philosophy, throughout its history and throughout many of the cultures of the world: work on logic is found among the Ancient ...

With this novum organum, philosophers hoped to slice through thorny problems in metaphysics and epistemology, and to model philosophy after the exact sciences. We will look at how mathematical logic ...

moral philosophy and action theory, metaphysics, epistemology, and more formal stuff. However, only her contributions to philosophical logic will be mentioned here. In her book Introduction to ...

Formal Frameworks for Philosophy. In addition to logic and probability theory, the course also covers further formal frameworks and methods that are often presupposed in contemporary philosophical ...