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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, math...
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Elsevier/North Holland,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Handbook of the philosophy of science
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444515414 |
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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 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 1202 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444515414 0444515410 |
| Index Number: | BC71 |
| CLC: | B81 |
| 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 Forma |