Philosophical Logic
A Contemporary Introduction
Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline. In this book, John MacFarlane helps the reader think about the limitations of, presuppositions of, and alternatives to classical first-order predicate logic, making this an ideal introduction to philosophical logic for any student who already has completed an introductory logic course.The book explores the following questions. Are there quantificational idioms that cannot be expressed with thefamiliar universal and existential quantifiers? How can logic be extended to capture modal notions like necessity and obligation? Does the material conditional adequately c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-73356-4
- EAN: 9781351733564
- Produktnummer: 35032468
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'010 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 8 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
John MacFarlane is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications (2014).
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