Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic - Hardcover

Falkenstein, Lorne; Stapleford, Scott; Kao, Molly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367460300 ISBN 13: 9780367460303

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Logic Works is a critical and extensive introduction to logic. It asks questions about why systems of logic are as they are, how they relate to ordinary language and ordinary reasoning, and what alternatives there might be to classical logical doctrines.

The book covers classical first-order logic and alternatives, including intuitionistic, free, and many-valued logic. It also considers how logical analysis can be applied to carefully represent the reasoning employed in academic and scientific work, better understand that reasoning, and identify its hidden premises. Aiming to be as much a reference work and handbook for further, independent study as a course text, it covers more material than is typically covered in an introductory course. It also covers this material at greater length and in more depth with the purpose of making it accessible to those with no prior training in logic or formal systems.

Online support material includes a detailed student solutions manual with a running commentary on all starred exercises, and a set of editable slide presentations for course lectures.

Key Features

Introduces an unusually broad range of topics, allowing instructors to craft courses to meet a range of various objectives

Adopts a critical attitude to certain classical doctrines, exposing students to alternative ways to answer philosophical questions about logic

Carefully considers the ways natural language both resists and lends itself to formalization

Makes objectual semantics for quantified logic easy, with an incremental, rule-governed approach assisted by numerous simple exercises

Makes important metatheoretical results accessible to introductory students through a discursive presentation of those results and by using simple case studies

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lorne Falkenstein is Professor Emeritus at Western University in London, Canada, where he taught symbolic logic for many years. He has published on treatments of spatial representation, temporal awareness, and visual perception in the work of a number of 17^th and 18^th century philosophers, and continues to do work in that area.

Scott Stapleford

is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor (with Tyron Goldschmidt) of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2021), coeditor (with Kevin McCain) of Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2020), and coeditor (with Kevin McCain and Matthias Steup) of Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles

(Routledge, 2021).

Molly Kao

is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, in Montreal, Canada. Her primary area of research is philosophy of science, having worked on issues in the development of quantum theory as well as methodological questions involving unification and confirmation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367460300
• ISBN 13: 9780367460303
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 645
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchbär; info@buchbaer.de; ; Weberstr. 67; Osnabrück; 49084; Deutschland