Philosophy of logic /

The papers presented in this volume examine topics of central interest in contemporary philosophy of logic. They include reflections on the nature of logic and its relevance for philosophy today, and explore in depth developments in informal logic and the relation of informal to symbolic logic, math...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jacquette, Dale
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/North Holland, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Handbook of the philosophy of science.
Temas:
Logic.
Logic
Logique.
logic.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • 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 (J.C. 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)
  • �Lwenheim-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 Bim�b)
  • Paraconsistent Lgoics and Paraconsistency (Newton C.A. da Costa, O�tvio Bueno and �Dcio Krause)
  • 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)
  • Index.

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