A Companion to Philosophical Logic

Dale Jacquette

John Wiley & Sons, 15 avr. 2008 - 832 pages

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.

Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic.
Surveys major trends and offers original insights.

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Table des matières

Introduction Logic Philosophy and Philosophical Logic	1

Part I Historical Development of Logic	9

Part II Symbolic Logic and Ordinary Language	49

Part III Philosophical Dimensions of Logical Paradoxes	103

Part IV Truth and Definite Description in Semantic Analysis	143

Part V Concepts of Logical Consequence	225

Part VI Logic Existence and Ontology	263

Part VII Metatheory and the Scope and Limits of Logic	305

Part IX Modal Logics and Semantics	389

Part X Intuitionistic Free and ManyValued Logics	511

Part XI Inductive Fuzzy and Quantum Probability Logics	563

Part XII Relevance and Paraconsistent Logics	607

Part XIII Logic Machine Theory and Cognitive Science	665

Part XIV Mechanization of Logical Inference and Proof Discovery	707

Resources for Further Study	771

Index	776

Part VIII Logical Foundations of Set Theory and Mathematics	349

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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

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).

Informations bibliographiques

Titre	A Companion to Philosophical Logic Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Rédacteur	Dale Jacquette
Éditeur	John Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN	1405149949, 9781405149945
Longueur	832 pages

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