Logic list 16

Introduction to Logic

by Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Kenneth McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

Introduction to Logic is a proven textbook that has been honed through the collaborative efforts of many scholars over the last five decades. Its scrupulous attention to detail and precision in exposition and explanation is matched by the greatest accuracy in all associated detail. In addition,...

Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking

The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry

by T. Ryan Byerly
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This robust, clear, and well-researched textbook for classes in logic introduces students to both formal logic and to the virtues of intellectual inquiry. Part 1 challenges students to develop the analytical skills of deductive and inductive reasoning, showing them how to identify and evaluate arguments....

Computability and Logic

by George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007

Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's...

Medieval Formal Logic

Obligations, Insolubles and Consequences

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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability. The achievements of medieval logic are made available to a wider philosophical public then the medievalists themselves. The three genres of logica moderna...

Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

by Pavel Materna, Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

The book is about logical analysis of natural language. Since we humans communicate by means of natural language, we need a tool that helps us to understand in a precise manner how the logical and formal mechanisms of natural language work. Moreover, in the age of computers, we need to communicate...

Between Logic and Reality

Modeling Inference, Action and Understanding

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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

Is reality logical and is logic real? What is the origin of logical intuitions? What is the role of logical structures in the operations of an intelligent mind and in communication? Is the function of logical structure regulative or constitutive or both in concept formation? This...

Handbook of Philosophical Logic

Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy of Language

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

conceptual, realist) theories of predication. Chapter IV.4 centers on an important class of expressions used for predication in connection with quantities: mass expressions. This chapter reviews the most well-known approaches to mass terms and the ontological proposals related to them. In addition...

Leśniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics

by Rafal Urbaniak
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw Leśniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author’s nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing...

Logic as Universal Science

Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context

by A. Korhonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding.

Doing Worlds with Words

Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics

by J. Peregrin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy, and critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic, model theory and model-theoretical semantics. The main...

Logic and the Limits of Philosophy in Kant and Hegel

by C. Bohnet
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

This text examines the boundary between logic and philosophy in Kant and Hegel. Through a detailed analysis of 'quantity', it highlights the different ways Kant and Hegel handle this boundary. Kant is consistent in maintaining this boundary, but Hegel erases it and in the process transforms both logic and philosophy.

Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic

by Marko Malink
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Aristotle was the founder not only of logic but also of modal logic. In the Prior Analytics he developed a complex system of modal syllogistic which, while influential, has been disputed since antiquity--and is today widely regarded as incoherent. Combining analytic rigor with keen sensitivity to...

Forcing, Iterated Ultrapowers, and Turing Degrees

by Chitat Chong, Qi Feng, Theodore A Slaman;W Hugh Woodin;Yue Yang
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

This volume presents the lecture notes of short courses given by three leading experts in mathematical logic at the 2010 and 2011 Asian Initiative for Infinity Logic Summer Schools. The major topics covered set theory and recursion theory, with particular emphasis on forcing, inner model theory and...

Godel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001

In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of...