ISE The Power of Logic

Frances Howard-Snyder, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Ryan Wasserman (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

1424 Seiten

2019 | 6th edition
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-260-08465-8 (ISBN)

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This sixth edition of The Power of Logic offers an introduction to informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. The authors’ direct and accessible writing style, along with a wealth of engaging examples and challenging exercises, makes this an ideal text for today’s logic classes. With balanced and thorough coverage of both informal and symbolic logic, instructors can choose various paths of which they can move through the text depending on the focus of their course, making it a flexible resource for any kind of introductory logic course.

Frances Howard-Snyder is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University, where she has taught since 1993. She has a PhD in philosophy from Syracuse University and an MA from the University of Cape Town. She has published articles on topics in normative ethics, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics in T he Journal of Philosophy , A merican Philosophical Quarterly , and Philosophical Studies , among other places . When she is not doing philosophy, she most especially enjoys spending time with her husband, Dan, and her twins, Peter and William. Daniel Howard-Snyder is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University, where he has taught since 2000. He has a PhD from Syracuse University and a BA from Seattle Pacifi c University. He is editor or co-editor of four books, The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana University Press, 1996), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge, 2002), and The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil (Blackwell 2013). He has published articles in, among other places, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, American Philosophical Quarterly , and Faith and Philosophy . His chief love is his family—Frances, William, and Peter—without whom his life would be bereft of all joy. Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Western Washington University, where he has taught since 2005. He has a PhD from Rutgers University and a BA from Western. His main philosophical interests are in metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He has published articles in many journals, including Mind, Noûs , and Philosophical Quarterly . He is also co-editor of Metametaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2008). Apart from philosophy, Ryan spends most of his time playing with his son, Benjamin, and his daughter, Zoë Mae.

Howard-Snyder: The Power of Logic, 6e
PREFACECHAPTER 1: Basic Concepts CHAPTER 2: Identifying Arguments CHAPTER 3: Logic and Language CHAPTER 4: Informal Fallacies CHAPTER 5: Categorical Logic: Statements CHAPTER 6: Categorical Logic: Syllogisms CHAPTER 7: Statement Logic: Truth Tables CHAPTER 8: Statement Logic: Proofs CHAPTER 9: Predicate Logic CHAPTER 10: Inductive Logic ANSWER KEYPHOTO CREDITSGLOSSARY/INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	130 Illustrations
Verlagsort	OH
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 231 mm
Gewicht	830 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-260-08465-5 / 1260084655
ISBN-13	978-1-260-08465-8 / 9781260084658
Zustand	Neuware