Product Description: Now in a new edition!--the classic presentation of the theory of computable functions in the context of the foundations of mathematics. Part I motivates the study of computability with discussions and readings about the crisis in the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century, while presenting the basic ideas of whole number, function, proof, and real number...read more

Product Description: In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics...read more

Product Description: Critical thinking isn't as easy as it sounds. CRITICAL THINKING shows you how decision-making errors are made, and how to avoid them. By combining simple explanations with time-tested theories, CRITICAL THINKING helps you meet the challenges of life head-on...read more

Product Description: This book is a summary and guide to the art of reasoning in economics and in everyday life, from one of the foremost authors and researchers in the field of critical thinking. Critical thinking is evaluating whether we should be convinced that some claim is true or some argument is good, as well as formulating good arguments...read more

Product Description: Not everyone knows how to think critically. THE POCKET GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING is the new standard for reasoning well and making smart choices. Inside, you'll discover tips and secrets that not only help you get better grades, it gives you the tools you'll need for success in career and relationships...read more

Product Description: Featuring its own cast of characters, a personal and accessible tone, and carefully crafted in step by step units, Epstein's CRITICAL THINKING sets new standards of clarity for presenting subject matter. Extensively class tested, the text uses an enormous number of everyday examples and exercises to illuminate key points and ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Logic is the art of making inferences, of how to say "therefore". In this book, Richard L. Epstein surveys the five main ways to do that: arguments, proofs, conditionals, cause and effect, and explanations. He does so in an exceptionally clear and simple way, unifying the most advanced research in a presentation that is suitable for students, scholars, and instructors...read more

Product Description: This book is a survey and overview of the major systems of propositional logics, answering the question, "If logic is the right way to reason, why are there so many logics?" Each system is presented both formally and with philosophical motivation in Epstein's renowned clear style...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A presentation of the fundamental ideas that generate the formal systems of predicate logic. This text clearly relates predicate logic to reasoning in ordinary language, with hundreds of examples of formalization, with a clear theory of how to formalize ordinary arguments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This highly readable and intuitive introduction to computability theory contains a great many background discussions which introduce the reader to the researched history and philosophical aspects of recursion theory and logic. This book is perfectly suited for class work and individual study, successfully achieving the goal of painlessly introducing technical matter in a readable and stimulating way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new edition of the author's well-received Propositional Logics presents the history, philosophy, and mathematics of its subject. Individual chapters are devoted to classical logic, modal logics, many-valued logics, intuitionism, paraconsistent logics, and analytic implication...read more

Product Description: This edition of Propositional Logics presents the history, philosophy and mathematics of its subject. Individual chapters are devoted to classical logic, model logics, many-valued logics, intuitionism, paraconsistent logics, and analytic implication...read more

Product Description: The term “global organized crime” is often used to refer to worldwide illegitimate activities of criminal groups and networks and is associated with the so-called “globalization process”. Although it can not be denied that due to economic, technological, political and cultural developments, borders have disappeared or changed, markets have extended, mobility and communication facilities have improved, it would be a major fallacy to study organized crime and its containment solely from a global perspective...read more