2015 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 3319225561 | PDF | 1.9 MB In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal...

2015 | 890 Pages | ISBN: 331920954X | PDF | 9.7 MB This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation...

2013 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 023116016X | PDF | 24.6 MB Plato’s Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou...

2003 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 1349526525 | PDF | 5.0 MB This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one that has been mostly retrospectively created. The...

English | 13 Sept. 2001 | ISBN: 0195144260 | 244 Pages | PDF | 900.53 KB Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other hapless social actors. There is little doubt that ruling regimes and disparate...

English | 2 Jun. 2010 | ISBN: 3540219730 | 312 Pages | PDF | 2.46 MB This book looks at the mathematical foundations of the models currently in use. All existing books on bioinformatics are software-orientated and they concentrate on computer implementations of mathematical models of biology. This...

2014 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0271050764 | PDF | 11.8 MB G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western...

English | August 26th, 2011 | ASIN: B005BRJWCO, ISBN: 184694676X | 180 Pages | EPUB | 1.76 MB The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre...

2014 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 1349560383 | PD | 1.9 MB Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Evolution and Ethics offers an insightful analysis of four epistemological types of sociobiology which appear...