The Continuum Companion to Philosophical Logic offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. The book covers all the fundamental areas of philosophical logic - topics that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Seventeen specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the exciting new directions the field is taking. The Companion explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, extensional and intensional extensions of classical logic, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality. Crucially the emphasis is on the role that logic plays in understanding philosophical problems.
Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a detailed list of resources, a bibliography and a companion website, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in contemporary philosophical logic.
Author(s): Leon Horsten, Richard Pettigrew (eds.)
Series: Continuum Companions
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 647
1 Leon Horsten and Richard Pettigrew: Introduction
2 Leon Horsten and Richard Pettigrew: Mathematical Methods in Philosophy
Leon Horsten and Richard Pettigrew: How to Use This Book
3 Vann McGee: Logical Consequence
4 C. Anthony Anderson: Identity and Existence in Logic
5 Bernard Linsky: Quantification and Descriptions
6 Øystein Linnebo: Higher-Order Logic
7 Richard Dietz: The Paradox of Vagueness
8 Edwin Mares: Negation
9 Gabriel Sandu: Game-Theoretical Semantics
10 Karl-Georg Niebergall: Mereology
11 John Burgess: The Logic of Necessity
12 Thomas Müller: Tense or Temporal Logic
13 Leon Horsten and Volker Halbach: Truth and Paradox
14 Igor Douven: Indicative Conditionals
15 Richard Pettigrew: Probability
16 J. B. Paris: Pure Inductive Logic
17 Horacio Arló Costa and Arthur Paul Pedersen: Belief Revision
18 Paul Égré: Epistemic Logic
19 Paul Weirich: Logic of Decision
20 Leon Horsten and Richard Pettigrew: Further Reading
Bibliography
General Index
Author Index