Steven M. Cahn

Thinking about Logic

Classic Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking about Logic is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of classic articles in the philosophy of logic. An ideal companion to any formal logic course or textbook, this volume illuminates how logic relates to perennial philosophical issues about knowledge, meaning, rationality, and reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780367097318
• ISBN-10: 0367097311
• Artikelnr.: 57111426

Autorenporträt

Steven M Cahn

Inhaltsangabe

Preface I. LOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE 1 What the Tortoise Said to Achilles Lewis
Carroll 2 What Achilles Said to the Tortoise W. J. Rees 3 What Achilles
Should Have Said to the Tortoise J. F. Thomson Questions II. LOGIC AND
DEFINITION 4 The Runabout Inference-Ticket A. N. Prior 5 Roundabout the
Runabout Inference-Ticket J. T. Stevenson 6 Tonk, Plonk and Plink Nuel D.
Belnap Questions III. LOGIC AND INFERENCE 7 A Counterexample to Modus
Ponens Vann McGee 8 Not a Counterexample to Modus Ponens E. J. Lowe 9
Assumptions and the Supposed Counterexamples to Modus Ponens D. E. Over
Questions IV. LOGIC AND FREEDOM 10 'It Was to Be' Gilbert Ryle 11 Fatalism
Richard Taylor 12 Time, Truth, and Ability Richard Taylor and Steven M.
Cahn Questions V. LOGIC AND REALITY 13 The Justification of Deduction Susan
Haack 14 The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals Nelson Goodman 15 On
What There Is Willard V. Quine Questions About the Contributors Source
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