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cover of Elements of Knowledge: Pragmatism, Logic, and Inquiry

Elements of Knowledge

Pragmatism, Logic, and Inquiry

Arthur Franklin Stewart

Vanderbilt University Press, 1997

An original and ingenious introduction to the basic, experimental, trial-and-error process by which we acquire and validate facts and beliefs and through which we gain understanding and truth.

Elements of Knowledge is an engaging introductory text, effectively and imaginatively designed to bring a working understanding and appreciation of the fundamental tenets and methods of the American school of philosophy known as pragmatism, as articulated by its founder C. S. Peirce, to undergraduates and general readers. It presents and explains the basic pragmatic tools that are the common thread in our acquisition and development of knowledge, whether in an academic, vocational, or professional setting, or in life at large. Pragmatism guides, without dictating, examinations of ordinary human experience, creative learning in all fields, and progress in academic disciplines.

This book is intended for use by both general readers and students, particularly those in introductory logic or related philosophy courses. It will also fit well in the design of many "core curriculum" or "general education" course requirements. It is ultimately meant to be accessible and beneficial to anyone seeking a clearer understanding of the unifying principles for acquiring and assessing the soundness of all knowledge.

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Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar

Edited by Philip Schofield

University College London, 2025

Never before published in authentic form, this collection of Jeremy Bentham’s essays expands on his ideas about logic, language, ethics, and grammar. 

Best known as the founder of the ethical theory of utilitarianism, Bentham’s philosophical contributions spanned political economy, judicial administration, prison reform, policing, religion, and many more fields. This new addition to The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham deals with his ideas about logic, language, ethics, and grammar. Distributed across four essays written between 1814 and 1816 and an appendix, it includes discussions of methodization, ontology, real and fictitious entities, and propositions as the fundamental components of language. In addition to constituting a major contribution to the history of logic and language, this collection establishes the philosophical basis for classical utilitarianism and Chrestomathia, Bentham’s major work outlining his materialist theory of language. 
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Ethical Principles and Practice

John Howie

Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

The second volume in applied ethics based on the distinguished Wayne Leys Memorial Lectureship Series.

With guidelines from legal reasoning, Michael D. Bayles examines “Moral Theory and Application.” Abraham Edel questions “Ethics Applied Or Conduct Enlightened?” The late Warner A. Wick shows in “The Good Person and the Good Society: Some Ideals Foolish and Otherwise” that devotion to ideals need not be either fanaticism or foolishness. John Lachs contends that many public gains are purchased at the cost of individuals being manipulated in “Public Benefit, Private Costs.” James E. Childress in “Gift of Life…” considers ethical issues in obtaining and distributing human organs. Carl Wellman in “Terrorism and Moral Rights” argues that there can be no “rights-based justification” for anti-abortion terrorism.

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Euclid and His Twentieth Century Rivals

Diagrams in the Logic of Euclidean Geometry

Nathaniel Miller

CSLI, 2007

Twentieth-century developments in logic and mathematics have led many people to view Euclid’s proofs as inherently informal, especially due to the use of diagrams in proofs. In Euclid and His Twentieth-Century Rivals, Nathaniel Miller discusses the history of diagrams in Euclidean Geometry, develops a formal system for working with them, and concludes that they can indeed be used rigorously. Miller also introduces a diagrammatic computer proof system, based on this formal system. This volume will be of interest to mathematicians, computer scientists, and anyone interested in the use of diagrams in geometry.
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Exploring Logical Dynamics

Johan van Benthem

CSLI, 1996

This book is an exploration of current trends in logical theories of information flow across various fields, such as belief revision in computer science or dynamic semantics in linguistics. It provides one mathematical perspective encompassing all of these. This framework generates a new agenda of questions concerning dynamic inference and dynamic operators. The result is a mathematical theory of process models, simulations between these, and modal languages over them, which is developed in quite some detail. New results include theorems on expressive completeness, representation of styles of inference, and new kinds of decidable remodeling for standard logics. This theory is also confronted with practice in computer science, linguistics and philosophy.
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