Logical Forms

An Introduction to Philosophical Logic

Mark Sainsbury (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

436 Seiten

2000 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21679-7 (ISBN)

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* Exercises are integrated throughout the book. * Interactive introduction which engages the reader. * Each chapter concludes with updated notes to guide further reading. * Includes the results of recent work and examines the formal languages of classical first order logic and modal logic, and some alternatives.

Logical Forms explains both the detailed problems involved in finding logical forms and also the theoretical underpinnings of philosophical logic. In this revised edition, exercises are integrated throughout the book. The result is a genuinely interactive introduction which engages the reader in developing the argument. Each chapter concludes with updated notes to guide further reading.

Mark Sainsbury is Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He is the author of Russell (1979) and Paradoxes (second edition, 1995).

Preface. Introduction.

1. Validity.

2. Truth Functionality.

3. Conditionals and Probabilities.

4. Quantification.

5. Necessity.

6. The Project pf formalization.

Glossary.

List of Symbols.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.2000
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-631-21679-0 / 0631216790
ISBN-13	978-0-631-21679-7 / 9780631216797
Zustand	Neuware