Papers in Philosophical Logic

Name: Papers in Philosophical Logic
Price: 19.34 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521587884

ISBN-10: 0521587883

ISBN-13: 9780521587884

Edition: 1998

Authors: David Lewis, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson

List price: $31.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $24.73

Marketplace

3 new & used from $19.34

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewiss most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. The purpose of this collection (and the two volumes to follow) is to disseminate even more widely the work of a preeminent and influential late twentieth-century philosopher. The papers are now offered in a readily accessible format. This first volume is devoted to Lewiss work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalised languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.43" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Gilbert Harman is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind.



Introduction



Adverbs of quantification



Index, context, and content



ï¿½Whetherï¿½ report



Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities



Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II



Intensional logics without iterative axioms



Ordering semantics and premise semantics for Counterfactuals



Logic for equivocators



Relevant implication



Statements partly about observation



Ayerï¿½s first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?



Analog and digital



Lucas against mechanism



Lucas against mechanism II



Policing the Aufbau



Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges)



Nominalistic set theory



Mathematics is megethology


Index