Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic

Bonevac, Daniel

ISBN 10: 063122713X / ISBN 13: 9780631227137

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic
• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 063122713X
• ISBN-13: 9780631227137
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

Deduction is an efficient and elegant presentation of classical first-order logic. It presents a truth tree system based on the work of Jeffrey, as well as a natural deduction system inspired by that of Kalish and Montague.

• Efficient and elegant presentation of classical first-order logic.
• Presents a truth tree system based on the work of Jeffrey, as well as a natural deduction system inspired by that of Kalish and Montague.
• Contains detailed, yet accessible chapters on extensions and revisions of classical logic: modal logic, many-valued logic, fuzzy logic, intuitionistic logic, counterfactuals, deontic logic, common sense reasoning, and quantified modal logic.
• Includes problem sets, designed to lead students gradually from easier to more difficult problems.

Further information and select answers to problems available here: bonevac.info/deduction/About_the_Book.html

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Bonevac is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reduction in the Abstract Sciences (1982), which received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy, as well as The Art and Science of Logic (1990), Simple Logic (1999), and Worldly Wisdom (2001). He also edited Today's Moral Issues (fourth edition, 2002), Understanding Non-Western Philosophy (with Stephen Phillips, 1993), and Beyond the Western Tradition: Readings in Moral and Political Philosophy (with William Boon and Stephen Phillips, 1992).