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Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Dale Jacquette, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Included in series
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science,
Description
The papers presented in this volume examine topics of central interest in contemporary philosophy of logic. They include reflections
on the nature of logic and its relevance for philosophy today, and explore in depth developments in informal logic and the relation of
informal to symbolic logic, mathematical metatheory and the limiting metatheorems, modal logic, many-valued logic, relevance and paraconsistent
logic, free logics, extensional v. intensional logics, the logic of fiction, epistemic logic, formal logical and semantic paradoxes,
the concept of truth, the formal theory of entailment, objectual and substitutional interpretation of the quantifiers, infinity and domain
constraints, the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem and Skolem paradox, vagueness, modal realism v. actualism, counterfactuals and the logic of
causation, applications of logic and mathematics to the physical sciences, logically possible worlds and counterpart semantics, and the
legacy of Hilbert?s program and logicism. The handbook is meant to be both a compendium of new work in symbolic logic and an authoritative
resource for students and researchers, a book to be consulted for specific information about recent developments in logic and to be read
with pleasure for its technical acumen and philosophical insights.
Audience
Researchers, libraries
Contents
General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Philosophy of Logic Today
(Dale Jacquette)
What is Logic? (Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu)
The Scope and Limits of Logic (Wilfrid Hodges)
Logic
in Philosophy (Johan van Benthem)
Informal Logic and the Concept of Argument (David Hitchcock)
On the Relation of Informal to
Symbolic Logic (Dale Jacquette)
Vagueness and the Logic of Ordinary Language (Roy A. Sorensen)
Logic and Semantic Analysis (Ernest
Lepore and Matthew Stone)
Justificatory Irrelevance of Formal Semantics (Charles F. Kielkopf)
A Brief History of Truth (Stewart
Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic)
Truth and Paradox: A Philosophical Sketch (J.C. Beall)
Hilbert's Program Then and Now (Richard
Zach)
Logicism and its Contemporary Legacy (Herbert Hochberg)
Classical Logic's Coming of Age (John W. Dawson, Jr.)
Infinity
(Peter Fletcher)
Lowenheim-Skolem Theorems (Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus)
The Mathematics of Skolem's Paradox (Timothy Bays)
Objectual
and Substitutional Interpretations of the Quantifiers (Michael Hand)
Many-Valued Logics (Siegfried Gottwald)
Relevance Logics
(Katalin Bimbo)
Paraconsistent Lgoics and Paraconsistency (Newton C.A. da Costa, Otavio Bueno and Decio Krause)
Extensional vs
Intensional Logic (Jaroslav Peregrin)
Logically Possible Worlds and Counterpart Semantics for Modal Logic (Marcus Kracht and Oliver
Kutz)
Modal Realism and its Roots in Mathematical Realism (Charles S. Chihara)
Free Logics (John Nolt)
Fictions and their
Logic (John Woods)
Counterfactuals, Causation, and Preemption (John Collins)
Logic, Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences (Neil
Tennant)
Default Reasoning (Nicholas Rescher)
Index
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Hardbound, 1218 pages, publication date: OCT-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51541-4
ISBN-10: 0-444-51541-0
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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