Series Editor:
Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Edited by
Dale Jacquette, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A
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 Löwenheim-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.
Included in series
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
Audience:
Researchers, libraries
