A Companion to Philosophical Logic

Herausgeber: Jacquette, Dale

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of newly commissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic. Written by experts from a variety of different logical and philosophical perspectives, the volume presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic. Each section features contributors currently active in research who explain the central ideas of their special field and take a philosophical stand on recent issues in the intersection of logic and analytic philosophy. Taken together, the essays survey major trends and offer original insights to advance research and philosophical discussion. A Companion to Philosophical Logic provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art handbook for students and professional researchers in philosophical logic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 172mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1442g
• ISBN-13: 9781405145756
• ISBN-10: 1405145757
• Artikelnr.: 21507860

Autorenporträt

Dale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Philosophy of Mind (1994), Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (1996), Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (1998), Symbolic Logic (2001), David Hume's Critique of Infinity (2001), and On Boole: Logic as Algebra (2001), as well as numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Wittgenstein. He is editor of Philosophy of Mathematics: An Anthology (Blackwell 2001) and Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology (Blackwell 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

List of Contributors.

Introduction: Logic, Philosophy, and Philosophical Logic: DaleJacquette (Pennsylvania State University).

Part I: Historical Development of Logic.

Part II: Symbolic Logic and Ordinary Language.

Part III: Philosophical Dimensions of Logical Paradoxes.

Part IV: Truth and Definite Description in SemanticAnalysis.

Part V: Concepts of Logical Consequence.

Part VI Logic, Existence, and Ontology.

Part VII: Metatheory and the Scope and Limits of Logic.

Part VIII: Logical Foundations of Set Theory andMathematics.

Part IX: Modal Logics and Semantics.

Part X: Intuitionistic, Free, and Many-Valued Logics.

Part XI: Inductive, Fuzzy, and Quantum Probability Logics.

Part XII: Relevance and Paraconsistent Logics.

Part XIII: Logic, Machine Theory, and Cognitive Science.

Part XIV: Mechanization of Logical Inference and ProofDiscovery.

Resources for Further Study.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Here is a first-class collection of articles by a first-class collection of authors. It covers the full range of philosophical logic from its history through its philosophy to its applications, with a lot of good, solid logic all along the way. Of particular value is the way it presents multiple voices on common topics. This is the way philosophy should be done." Lou Goble, Willamette University