Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.
- Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic.
- Surveys major trends and offers original insights.
Trade Review"Here is a first-class collection of articles by a first-class collection of authors. It covers the full range of philosophical logic from its history through its philosophy to its applications, with a lot of good, solid logic all along the way. Of particular value is the way it presents multiple voices on common topics. This is the way philosophy should be done."
—Lou Goble, Willamette University
Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Logic, Philosophy, and Philosophical Logic – Dale Jacquette 1
Part I Historical Development of Logic 9
11 Ancient Greek Philosophical Logic – Robin Smith 11
12 History of Logic: Medieval – E. P. Bos and B. G. Sundholm 24
13 The Rise of Modern Logic – Rolf George and James Van Evra 35
Part II Symbolic Logic and Ordinary Language 49
14 Language, Logic, and Form – Kent Bach 51
15 Puzzles about Intensionality – Nathan Salmon 73
16 Symbolic Logic and Natural Language – Emma Borg and Ernest Lepore 86
Part III Philosophical Dimensions of Logical Paradoxes 103
17 Logical Paradoxes – James Cargile 105
18 Semantical and Logical Paradox – Keith Simmons 115
19 Philosophical Implications of Logical Paradoxes – Roy A. Sorensen 131
Part IV Truth and Definite Description in Semantic Analysis 143
10 Truth, the Liar, and Tarski’s Semantics – Gila Sher 145
11 Truth, the Liar, and Tarskian Truth Definition – Greg Ray 164
12 Descriptions and Logical Form – Gary Ostertag 177
13 Russell’s Theory of Definite Descriptions as a Paradigm for Philosophy – Gregory Landini 194
Part V Concepts of Logical Consequence 225
14 Necessity, Meaning, and Rationality: The Notion of Logical Consequence – Stewart Shapiro 227
15 Varieties of Consequence – B. G. Sundholm 241
16 Modality of Deductively Valid Inference – Dale Jacquette 256
Part VI Logic, Existence, and Ontology 263
17 Quantifiers, Being, and Canonical Notation – Paul Gochet 265
18 From Logic to Ontology: Some Problems of Predication, Negation, and Possibility – Herbert Hochberg 281
19 Putting Language First: The ‘Liberation’ of Logic from Ontology – Ermanno Bencivenga 293
Part VII Metatheory and the Scope and Limits of Logic 305
20 Metatheory – Alasdair Urquhart 307
21 Metatheory of Logics and the Characterization Problem – Jan Wole´nski 319
22 Logic in Finite Structures: Definability, Complexity, and Randomness – Scott Weinstein 332
Part VIII Logical Foundations of Set Theory and Mathematics 349
23 Logic and Ontology: Numbers and Sets – José A. Benardete 351
24 Logical Foundations of Set Theory and Mathematics – Mary Tiles 365
25 Property-Theoretic Foundations of Mathematics – Michael Jubien 377
Part IX Modal Logics and Semantics 389
26 Modal Logic – Johan van Benthem 391
27 First-Order Alethic Modal Logic – Melvin Fitting 410
28 Proofs and Expressiveness in Alethic Modal Logic – Maarten de Rijke and Heinrich Wansing 422
29 Alethic Modal Logics and Semantics – Gerhard Schurz 442
30 Epistemic Logic – Nicholas Rescher 478
31 Deontic, Epistemic, and Temporal Modal Logics – Risto Hilpinen 491
Part X Intuitionistic, Free, and Many-Valued Logics 511
32 Intuitionism – Dirk van Dalen and Mark van Atten 513
33 Many-Valued, Free, and Intuitionistic Logics – Richard Grandy 531
34 Many-Valued Logic – Grzegorz Malinowski 545
Part XI Inductive, Fuzzy, and Quantum Probability Logics 563
35 Inductive Logic – Stephen Glaister 565
36 Heterodox Probability Theory – Peter Forrest 582
37 Why Fuzzy Logic? – Petr Hájek 595
Part XII Relevance and Paraconsistent Logics 607
38 Relevance Logic – Edwin D. Mares 609
39 On Paraconsistency – Bryson Brown 628
40 Logicians Setting Together Contradictories: A Perspective on Relevance, Paraconsistency, and Dialetheism – Graham Priest 651
Part XIII Logic, Machine Theory, and Cognitive Science 665
41 The Logical and the Physical – Andrew W. Hodges 667
42 Modern Logic and its Role in the Study of Knowledge – Peter A. Flach 680
43 Actions and Normative Positions: A Modal-Logical Approach – Robert Demolombe and Andrew J. I. Jones 694
Part XIV Mechanization of Logical Inference and Proof Discovery 707
44 The Automation of Sound Reasoning and Successful Proof Finding – Larry Wos and Branden Fitelson 709
45 A Computational Logic for Applicative Common LISP – Matt Kaufmann and J. Strother Moore 724
46 Sampling Labeled Deductive Systems – D. M. Gabbay 742
Resources for Further Study 771
Index 776
