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Logic: A Very Short Introduction
Priest teaches logic through puzzles. Each short chapter opens with a question, such as whether nothing is something, whether the Greeks worshipped Zeus, or what a sentence that…
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Chalmers distinguishes the 'easy problems' of explaining cognitive functions such as discrimination, attention and report from the 'hard problem' of explaining why any of this is accompanied by…
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forall x: An Introduction to Formal Logic
A free, openly licensed textbook for a first course in formal logic. It begins with the notions of argument and validity, then teaches sentential logic: symbolising English sentences,…
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Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
A compact introduction to metaphysics by a philosopher best known for his work on powers and causation. Mumford starts from an ordinary table and asks what it is:…
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Reasons and Persons
Parfit's first book is a long, closely argued work in four parts. Part One examines theories that turn out to be self-defeating, including the self-interest theory of rationality…
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Material Beings
Van Inwagen poses what he calls the Special Composition Question: when do several things together make up a further thing? He examines and rejects answers on which composition…
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Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
A systematic textbook organised around the sources of belief, justification and knowledge. Audi begins with perception, comparing direct realism, sense-datum theories, adverbial theories and phenomenalism, and then treats…
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Testimony: A Philosophical Study
Coady's book is a sustained study of how much of what we know rests on what others tell us. He distinguishes the formal testimony of courts from the…
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The Character of Logic in India
Matilal's last account of Indian logic, unfinished at his death in 1991 and edited for publication by Jonardon Ganeri and Heeraman Tiwari. He argues that logic in India…
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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
Fricker identifies a kind of wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower. Testimonial injustice occurs when a speaker is given less credibility than they…
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