Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations
Richard L. Epstein
The topic of this volume is the evaluation of reasoning about cause and effect, reasoning using conditionals, and reasoning that involves explanations.Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well
Prescriptive Reasoning
Richard L. Epstein
The topic of this volume is prescriptive reasoning: why to view prescriptions as true or false and how to reason with them; in what way a theory can be prescriptive; and how descriptions of rationality are prescriptive.
Reasoning and Formal Logic
Richard L. Epstein
This volume examines the metaphysical assumptions that are needed in order to develop formal systems.
Reasoning in Science and Mathematics
Richard L. Epstein
The topic of this volume is the nature and evaluation of reasoning in science and mathematics. Science and mathematics can both be understood as proceeding by a method of abstraction from experience. Mathematics is distinguished from other sciences only in its greater abstraction and its demand for necessity in its inferences.
The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis
Richard L. Epstein
The question addressed in this volume is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning.