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Logicby W.H. Newton-Smith
Routledge 1985; US$ 33.95A complete introduction to logic for first-year university students with no background in logic, philosophy or mathematics. In easily understood steps it shows the mechanics of the formal analysis of arguments. more...
Logicby Paul Tomassi
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Logic is an ideal textbook for any logic student: great for revising before exams, for staying on top of course-work, and even for those who want to teach themselves logic. more...
Introduction to Logicby Harry Gensler
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95This text offers one of the most clear and accessible introductions to logic and engages students with the basics of logic through practical examples and important arguments in both the history of and contemporary philosophy. more...
Being Logicalby D.Q. Mcinerny
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 9.99Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, distinguished professor D. Q. McInerny offers an indispensable guide to using logic to advantage in everyday life. Written explicitly for the layperson, McInerny’s Being Logical promises to take its place beside Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style as a classic of lucid, invaluable advice. As McInerny notes, logic is a deep, wide, and wonderfully varied field, with a bearing on every aspect of our intellectual life. A mastery... more...
Logicby Graham Priest
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 8.95Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this introduction, Graham Priest explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic addresses many issues. more...
Acceptable Premisesby James Freeman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 37.00When, if ever, is one justified in accepting the premises of an argument? What is the proper criterion of premise acceptability? Can the criterion be theoretically or philosophically justified? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive theory of premise acceptability. more...
A Companion to Philosophical Logic by Dale Jacquette
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 36.95This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic. Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic. Surveys major trends and offers original insights. more...
A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systemsby Dov M. Gabbay; John Woods
Elsevier 2005; US$ 210.00The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion of relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. In this highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preserving inference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to a cognitive target that cannot be hit on the basis of what the agent currently knows. The abducer selects a hypothesis which were it true would enable the reasoner to attain his target. He concludes from this fact that the hypothesis may be conjectured. In allowing conjecture to stand in for the knowledge he fails to have, the abducer reveals himself to be... more...
Logic For Dummiesby Mark Zegarelli
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 19.99Logic concepts are more mainstream than you may realize. There’s logic every place you look and in almost everything you do, from deciding which shirt to buy to asking your boss for a raise, and even to watching television, where themes of such shows as CSI and Numbers incorporate a variety of logistical studies. Logic For Dummies explains a vast array of logical concepts and processes in easy-to-understand language that make everything clear to you, whether you’re a college student of a student of life. You’ll find out about: Formal Logic Syllogisms Constructing proofs and refutations Propositional and predicate logic Modal and fuzzy logic Symbolic logic Deductive and inductive reasoning L ogic For Dummies tracks... more...
Philosophy of Logicby Dov M. Gabbay; Paul Thagard; John Woods; Dale Jacquette
Elsevier 2006; US$ 260.00The 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,... more...