Papers in Philosophical Logic: Volume 1

by David Lewis

Overview

This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis' work on philosophical logic from the past twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalized languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the differences between analog and digital representation, and questions arising from the construction of ambitious formalized philosophical systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521582476
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/28/1997
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Adverbs of quantification; 2. Index, context, and content; 3. 'Whether' report; 4. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities; 5. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II; 6. Intensional logics without iterative axioms; 7. Ordering semantics and premise semantics for Counterfactuals; 8. Logic for equivocators; 9. Relevant implication; 10. Statements partly about observation; 11. Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?; 12. Analog and digital; 13. Lucas against mechanism; 14. Lucas against mechanism II; 15. Policing the Aufbau; 16. Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges); 17. Nominalistic set theory; 18. Mathematics is megethology; Index.