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Ideas Explained eBook Series

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  • Frege Explained

    by Joan Weiner ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What is the number one? How can we be sure that 2+2=4? These apparently ssimple questions have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, but discussion of them was transformed by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925).Frege (pronounced Fray-guh)believed that arithmetic and all mathematics are derived from logic, and to prove this he developed a completely new approach to logic and ... Read more

    $25.91 CAD

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  • Introduction to Phenomenology

    by Robert Sokolowski ...
    This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Seeing Things as They Are

    A Theory of Perception

    by John R. Searle ...
    This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the ... Read more

    $38.15 CAD

  • How Mathematicians Think

    Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

    by William Byers ...
    To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar ... Read more

    $30.86 CAD

  • Constructing the World

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version of the project can succeed. With the right basic elements and the right derivation relation, we ... Read more

    $33.11 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Read more

    $75.14 CAD

  • Godel's Proof

    by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on ... Read more

    $34.48 CAD

  • Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought

    by Vladimir Tasic ...
    This is a charming and insightful contribution to an understanding of the "Science Wars" between postmodernist humanism and science, driving toward a resolution of the mutual misunderstanding that has driven the controversy. It traces the root of postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations of mathematics early in the 20th century, then compares developments in mathematics to what took place ... Read more

    $38.15 CAD

  • Understanding Analysis

    by Stephen Abbott ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This lively introductory text exposes the student to the rewards of a rigorous study of functions of a real variable. In each chapter, informal discussions of questions that give analysis its inherent fascination are followed by precise, but not overly formal, developments of the techniques needed to make sense of them. By focusing on the unifying themes of approximation and the resolution of ... Read more

    $46.43 CAD

  • Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

    by Rudolf Carnap ...
    The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with ... Read more

    $9.62 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

    by Michael Morris ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes:Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the Tractatusthe ideas and text of the Tractatusthe continuing importance of ... Read more

    $52.97 CAD

  • Metaphysics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Michael Loux ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    This Contemporary Introduction is for at students of metaphysics who have already done an introductory philosophy course. Michael J. Loux provides a fesh look as the central topics in metaphysics,rendering this essential reading for any student of the subject. This fully revised and updated version of the highly successful first edition includes a brand new chapter on the Realism/anti-Realism ... Read more

    $289.53 CAD