Crisp, easy-to-understand lectures on logic.Table of contents:30 Principles of LogicMathematical LogicTrilingual Logic101 Principles of LogicDifferent kinds of Mathematical Functions: A DialogueFucntions, Bijections and Mapping-relationsLogic and Formal TruthRelations and Ordinal NumbersNine Kinds of NumberCausalityAnalyticityIs Mind an Emergent Property?Is Time-travel Possible?What i...

The empirical sciences make assumptions that they are not themselves capable of justifying. Philosophy justifies those assumptions; that is its job.

Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of both. It is further shown that modern rationaiism, much like an unregulated economy, collapses into its own antithesis, it being one of the purposes of religion to prevent this collapse.

Representative work from July-August 2019. Contents include:Is the Turing Test a good test of intelligence? )Who started the Cold War?Who was a better President? Eisenhower or JFK?Who was a better President? Nixon or LBJ?Technology-caused Job-shortages and the Need for Universal WelfareStatistics: Basic Principles and Theorems (Math/Statistics)Random Variables, Discrete Variables, Continuous Variables (Math/Statistics)Statisti...

In this book, Kant's ethical system is clearly stated and carefully critiqued. In the process, cogent answers are given to the following questions: *What is the relationship between self-interest and morality? *What is the relationship between morality and rationality? *What is the nature of rationality? *What is the difference between rationality and intelligence?*What is the relationship between awareness of moral norms and awareness of logical norms? A must-read for anyone interested in...

Se explican las implicaciones económicas del desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial.

Determinism is the doctrine that the world's condition at any given time is a consequence of its condition at some prior time. The world is predictable only to the extent that it is deterministic, but even a strictly deterministic world cannot possibly be entirely predictable. The reasons for this are stated in this fast-paced, tightly argued monograph, as are the reasons why, contrary to what is generally assumed, it can in fact be established with reasonable certainty that the world is a...

It is said what aggregative properties are and also what emergent properties are, and examples are given each of kind of property. It is also explained why, even though all emergent properties are aggregative properties, not all aggregative properties are emergent properties. It is further made clear that, strictly speaking, emergence is a property of one's knowledge of a given kind of aggregate, and not of such aggregates themselves, this being why a property that is emergent at one time ...

Discussions of psychopathy, psychopathology, bureaucracy, etc.

Someone afflicted by mental illness is neurotic if he sees his symptoms as symptoms and psychotic if does not. A neurosis is therefore an 'ego-dystonic' mental illness, meaning that the viewpoint embodied in one's symptoms is not the viewpoint of the ego of the afflicted party. And a psychosis is therefore an 'ego-syntonic' illness, meaning that the viewpoint embodied in the symptoms coincides with that of the afflicted party's ego. Whereas ego-syntonic illnesses are unqualifiedly debilita...

Five classic works of modern analytic philosophy.What is an intention?Kant's EthicsPhilosophical KnowledgeA Priori KnowledgeAnalytic Truth vs. Formal Truth

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and ...