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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Philosophy of logic. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/North Holland, 2007 (DLC) 2006050855 (OCoLC)71284733 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dale Jacquette |
ISBN: | 9780080466637 008046663X 1280729147 9781280729140 9786610729142 661072914X |
OCLC Number: | 659559665 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 1202 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | General Preface / Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods -- Introduction : philosophy of logic today / Dale Jacquette -- What is logic? / Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu -- The scope and limits of logic / Wilfrid Hodges -- Logic in Philosophy / Johan van Benthem -- Informal logic and the concept of argument / David Hitchcock -- On the relation of informal to symbolic logic / Dale Jacquette -- Vagueness and the logic of ordinary language / Roy A. Sorensen -- Logic and semantic analysis / Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone -- Justificatory irrelevance of formal semantics / Charles F. Kielkopf -- A brief history of truth / Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic -- Truth and paradox : a philosophical sketch / JC Beall -- Hilbert's program then and now / Richard Zach -- Logicism and its contemporary legacy / Herbert Hochberg -- Classical logic's coming of age / John W. Dawson, Jr -- Infinity / Peter Fletcher -- Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems / Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus -- The mathematics of Skolem's Paradox / Timothy Bays -- Objectual and substitutional interpretations of the quantifiers / Michael Hand -- Many-valued logics / Siegfried Gottwald -- Relevance logics / Katalin Bimbó -- Paraconsistent logics and paraconsistency / Newton C.A. da Costa, Décio Krause and Otávio Bueno -- Extensional vs intensional logic / Jaroslav Peregrin -- Logically possible worlds and counterpart semantics for modal logic / Marcus Kracht and Oliver Kutz -- Modal realism and its roots in mathematical realism / Charles S. Chihara -- Free logics / John Nolt -- Fictions and their logic / John Woods -- Counterfactuals, causation, and preemption / John Collins -- Logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences / Neil Tennant -- Default reasoning / Nicholas Rescher. |
Series Title: | Handbook of the philosophy of science. |
Responsibility: | edited by Dale Jacquette. |
Abstract:
Examines topics of central interest in contemporary philosophy of logic. This book includes reflections on the nature of logic and its relevance for philosophy. It also explores developments in informal logic and the relation of informal to symbolic logic, mathematical metatheory and the limiting metatheorems and modal logic.
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"The volume contains a vast array of goodies brought together in a nice package. It is likely to become and important sourcebook. Separate bibliographies are included for each essay...Recommended [for] graduate students and above."- F. Wilson, University of Toronto in CHOICE, September 2007 Read more...
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