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  • 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...
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    51,10 €

  • Epictetus’s ’Encheiridion’
    Scott Aikin / William O. Stephens
    For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex philosophical text. Including a full translation and clear explanatory commentaries, Epictetus’s ’Encheiridion’introduces readers to a hugely influential work of Stoic philosophy. Scott Aikin and William O. Stephens unravel the core themes...
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    101,71 €

  • 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...
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    156,28 €

  • 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. ...
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    82,59 €

  • 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. ...
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    268,15 €

  • 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...
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    268,05 €

  • 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...
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    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...
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    66,79 €

  • Evidentialism and the Will to Believe
    Andrew Goffey / Scott F. 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...
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    226,19 €

  • Epistemology and the Regress Problem
    Scott Aikin
    In this new study, Aikin presents a full case for infinitism as a response to the problem of the regress of reasons. Infinitism is the view that one must have a non-terminating chain of reasons in order to be justified. The most defensible form of infinitism, he argues, is that of a mixed theory - that is, epistemic infinitism must be consistent with and integrate other solutio...
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    301,98 €

  • 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. ...
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    77,57 €

  • Pragmatism
    Robert B. Talisse / Scott F. Aikin
    The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy the insights and arguments of great American philosophers such as C.S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey. But it has also led to the use of the term ’pragmatism’ in a huge variety of contexts, such that students and readers can find this fascinating subject confusing. Pragmatism: A Guid...
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    167,72 €