Papers in Logic and Ethics
Author: Arthur N. Prior
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 246
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Author: Arthur N. Prior
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 246
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 111
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy J. Madigan
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 3031444612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521587860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third volume of Lewis's papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis o f value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment. The purpose of this collection, and the two preceding volumes, is to disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2020-05-13
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486841979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English philosopher of the nineteenth century. His vast intellectual output covered a range of subjects — traditional philosophy and logic, economics, political science — and included this work, a founding document in the area now known as social science. In The Logic of the Moral Sciences, Mill applied his considerable talents to examining how the study of human behavior, society, and history could be established on a rational, philosophical basis. The philosopher maintains that casual empiricism and direct experiment are not applicable to the study of complex social phenomena. Instead, "empirical laws," drawn from historical generalizations, must be derivable from a deductive science of human nature. Mills' insights and approaches have remained relevant in the century and a half since this treatise's publication. This volume will prove of vital interest to historians of philosophy and the social sciences as well as to undergraduate social science majors.
Author: James McCosh
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John H. Piet
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Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 3400
ISBN-13: 9788170209447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lars-Göran Johansson
Publisher: Department of Philosophy Uppsala University
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9789150620788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Hilpinen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9400984847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume is a sequel to Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1971): its purpose is to offer a view of some of the main directions of research in contemporary deontic logic. Most of the articles included in Introductory and Systematic Readings represent what may be called the standard modal approach to deontic logic, in which de on tic logic is treated as a branch of modal logic, and the normative concepts of obligation, permission and prohibition are regarded as analogous to the "alethic" modalities necessity, possibility and impossibility. As Simo Knuuttila shows in his contribution to the present volume, this approach goes back to late medieval philosophy. Several 14th century philosophers observed the analogies between deontic and alethic modalities and discussed the deontic interpretations of various laws of modal logic. In contemporary deontic logic the modal approach was revived by G. H. von Wright's classic paper 'Deontic Logic' (1951). Certain analogies between deontic and alethic modalities are obvious and uncontroversial, but the standard approach has often been criticized on the ground that it exaggerates the analogies and tends to ignore those features of normative concepts which distinguish them from other modalities.
Author: Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780674798366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than two generations, W. V. Quine has contributed fundamentally to the substance, the pedagogy, and the philosophy of mathematical logic. Selected Logic Papers, long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years.