Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Modality Modality Bob Hale The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions--are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be exp… OL15586333W
The Logic of Scientific Discovery The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth c… OL1984582W
The Gödelian puzzle book The Gödelian puzzle book Raymond M. Smullyan These recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Godel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and othe… OL21178370W
Paradoxes from A to Z Paradoxes from A to Z Michael Clark 'This sentence is false'. Is it? If a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is fully occupied, can it still accommodate a new guest? How can we have emotional responses to fiction, when we know that… OL3378711W