Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

If you are not a “professional” philosopher and you read this article, you were likely convinced this change is reasonable and long overdue. Don’t feel bad. The authors, knowingly or not, begin by ...

Using quantitative methods, we investigate the role of logic in analytic philosophy from 1941 to 2010. In particular, a corpus of five journals publishing analytic philosophy is assessed and evaluated ...

This is a new introduction to logic for university undergraduates in their first and second years. The originality of the approach will also make it of considerable interest to postgraduates and ...

SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...

Philosophy majors confront questions about free will, morality, religion and consciousness. These students explore historical approaches to philosophical topics while learning to develop and express ...

Philosophy graduates think about the big questions in life and have the ability to analyse and communicate complex ideas intelligently. These are skills that employers value and can lead to several ...

Philosophy, which literally means love of wisdom, is one of the oldest academic disciplines besides Mathematics. In the Indian context, it also implies a way of living life righteously. Philosophy, ...

The present paper is one installment in a lengthy task, the replacement of atomistic interpretations of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" by a wholistic interpretation on which the world-in-logical-space is ...

Humans are animals. While we like to think we're captains of our destiny, we're far more driven by instinct than we know. In many ways, we’re just glorified apes, even in business. For over a century, ...