LIBROS DEL AUTOR: scott aikin

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: scott aikin

scott aikin Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Straw Man Arguments
    John Casey / Scott Aikin
    This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one’s critical interloc...
    Disponible

    51,10 €

  • Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy
    Robert B. Talisse / Scott F. Aikin
    Since the publication of their first co-authored article in 2005, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse have argued for a distinctive, yet controversial, version of pragmatism. This book sets out for the first time a cohesive, unified, and integrated statement on Aikin and Talisse’s distinctive strand of pragmatist philosophy. ...
    Disponible

    82,59 €

  • Why We Argue (And How We Should)
    Robert B. Talisse / Robert Talisse / Scott Aikin / Scott F. Aikin
    Many rational people shudder at what passed for critical discourse in the 2016 U.S. elections.　 In this timely 2nd　 Edition of Why We Argue (and How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason, Scott Aikin and Robert Talisse double-down on their call for the necessity of proper argumentation, for one’s own cognitive health and for the health of democracy...
    Disponible

    74,62 €

  • Evidentialism and the Will to Believe
    Scott Aikin
    Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford’s "The Ethics of Belief" and William James’s "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the history of the ideas governing evidentialism. As well as Clifford’s argument from the examples of the...
    Disponible

    66,79 €

  • Thinking about Logic
    Robert B. Talisse / Scott F. Aikin / Steven M. Cahn
    Thinking about Logic is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of classic articles in the philosophy of logic. An ideal companion to any formal logic course or textbook, this volume illuminates how logic relates to perennial philosophical issues about knowledge, meaning, rationality, and reality. ...
    Disponible

    77,57 €