BISAC SubjectsPHILOSOPHY / Logic

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Realism and Individualism: Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism

Mateusz W. Oleksy

Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely… read more

[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 55] 2015. ix, 350 pp.

Über Beweise und Beweisarten bei Wilhelm Ockham

Heinz-Helmut Möllmann

Die Arbeit versucht über drei, eigens gekennzeichnete und für Wilhelm Ockham (1285–1347) ausgewiesene Beweisarten (Induktion, Überredungsbeweis, Widerlegungsbeweis), die in einer Fülle von Beispielen dokumentiert werden, die Begründung seiner z. T. berüchtigten oder unverstandenen Thesen in ihrer… read more

[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 53] 2013. x, 727 pp.

Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism

John-Michael Kuczynski

What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:One can rationally accept… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 69] 2007. x, 524 pp.