Jacquette

Philosophy of Logic

Ed. by Dale Jacquette

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780631218685
• ISBN-10: 0631218688
• Artikelnr.: 13587556

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) and On Boole: Logic as Algebra (2001) as well as numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Wittgenstein.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Logic and Philosophy of Logic: Dale Jacquette.

Part I: Classical Logic.

Part II: Truth, Propositions and Meaning.

Part III: Quantifiers and Quantificational Theory.

Part IV: Validity, Inference and Entailment.

Part V Modality, Intensionality and Propositional Attitude.

Index.

Rezensionen

"The Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies have set a very high standardand Dale Jacquette's Philosophy of Logic handily maintainsthis customary level of breadth of coverage and importance ofcontent. Its inclusion of a vast amount of interesting materialwill make teaching from this anthology a delight." NicholasRescher, University of Pittsburgh

"Dale Jacquette in Philosophy of Logic: An Anthologybrings together some of the most important papers intwentieth-century philosophy of logic ... as a source book for acourse on philosophy of logic it is a useful collection. It wouldalso provide supplementary reading for courses on philosophy ofmathematics or language." Times Higher EducationSupplement