An Introduction to Philosophical Logic

by A. C. Grayling

Overview

An Introduction to Philosophical Logic has been a popular mainstay among students taking courses in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language since it was first published in 1982.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631199823
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/08/2001
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

A.C. Grayling is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and aFellow of St Anne's Colege, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. Philosophical Logic, the Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy and Logic.

2. The Proposition.

3. Necessity, Analyticity and the A Priori.

4. Existence, Presuppositions and Descriptions.

5. Truth: The Pragmatic and Coherence and Correspondence Theories.

6. Truth: Semantics, Deflation, Idefinability and Evaluation.

7. Meaning, Reference, Verification and Use.

8. Truth, Meaning, Realism and Anti-realism.

9. Realism, Anti-realism, Idealism, Relativism.

Bibliography.

Index.