Philosophy of logic
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
1 online resource (xvi, 1202 pages) : illustrations.
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General Preface / Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods
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 / JC 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
Löwenheim-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 Bimbó
Paraconsistent logics and paraconsistency / Newton C.A. da Costa, Décio Krause and Otávio Bueno
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
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