Modern Logic: A Text in Elementary Symbolic Logic / Edition 1

by Graeme Forbes

Overview

Filling the need for an accessible, carefully structured introductory text in symbolic logic, Modern Logic has many features designed to improve students' comprehension of the subject, including a proof system that is the same as the award-winning computer program MacLogic, and a special appendix that shows how to use MacLogic as a teaching aid. There are graded exercises at the end of each chapter—more than 900 in all—with selected answers at the end of the book. Unlike competing texts, Modern Logic gives equal weight to semantics and proof theory and explains their relationship, and develops in detail techniques for symbolizing natural language in first-order logic. After a general introduction featuring the notion of logical form, the book offers sections on classical sentential logic, monadic predicate logic, and full first-order logic with identity. A concluding section deals with extensions of and alternatives to classical logic, including modal logic, intuitionistic logic, and fuzzy logic. For students of philosophy, mathematics, computer science, or linguistics, Modern Logic provides a thorough understanding of basic concepts and a sound basis for more advanced work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195080292
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/20/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Graeme Forbes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Attitude Problems (Oxford, 2006), Languages of Possibility (1989), and The Metaphysics of Modality (Oxford, 1985). He has held research fellowships at New College, Oxford, and Edinburgh University, and has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Riverside.

Table of Contents

IntroductionI. Classical Sentential Logic1. What is Logic? 2. First Steps in Symbolization3. Semantics for Sentential Logic4. Natural Deduction in Sentential LogicII. Monadic Predicate Logic5. Predication and Quantification in English6. Validity and Provability in Monadic Predicate LogicIII. First-Order Logic with Identity7. Advanced Symbolizations8. Validity and Provability in First-Order Logic with IdentityIV. Extensions and Alternatives to Classical Logic9. Modal Logic10. Intuitionistic Logic11. Fuzzy LogicAppendix: Using MacLogicSolutions to Selected ExercisesBibliographyIndex