The Logic Book

by James Moor, Merrie Bergmann, Jack Nelson

Overview

The Logic Book is a leading text for symbolic logic courses that presents all concepts and techniques with clear, comprehensive explanations. There is a wealth of carefully constructed examples throughout the text, and its flexible organization places materials within largely self-contained chapters that allow instructors the freedom to cover the topics they want, in the order they choose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078038419
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/08/2013
Edition description:	List
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Moor received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University and is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He has developed software for teaching logic and has published articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and computer ethics.

Merrie Bergmann received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Smith College. She has published articles in formal semantics and logic, philosophy of language, and computational linguistics.

Jack Nelson received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Interim Chair of the Philosophy Department at Arizona State University. He has developed software for teaching logic and has published articles in personal identity, epistemology, and philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO DEDUCTIVE LOGIC 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Core Concepts of Deductive Logic 1.3 Special Cases of Logical Concepts 1.4 Deductive Validity and Soundness 1.5 Inductive Arguments 1.6 Logical Consistency, Truth, Falsity, and Equivalence 1.7 Special Cases of Validity Chapter 2: SYNTAX AND SYMBOLIZATION 2.1 The Syntax of SL 2.2 Introduction to Symbolization 2.3 More Complex Symbolizations 2.4 Non-Truth-Functional Uses of Connectives Chapter 3: Sentential Logic: Semantics 3.1 Truth-Value Assignments and Truth-Tables for Sentences 3.2 Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy 3.3 Truth-Functional Equivalence 3.4 Truth-Functional Consistency 3.5 Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity 3.6 Truth-Functional Properties and Truth-Functional Consistency Chapter 4: Sentential Logic: Truth-Trees 4.1 The Truth-Tree Method 4.2 Truth-Tree Rules 4.3 Using Truth-Trees to test for other Truths Chapter 5: Sentential Logic: Derivations 5.1 The Derivation System SD 5.2 Basic Concepts of SD 5.3 Strategies for Constructing Derivations in SD 5.4 The Derivation System SD+ Chapter 6: Sentential Logic: Metatheory 6.1 Mathematical Induction 6.2 Truth-Functional Completeness 6.3 The Soundness of SD and SD+ 6.4 The Completeness of SD and SD+ Chapter 7: Predicate Logic: Syntax and Symbolization 7.1 Predicates, Singular Terms, and Quantity Expressions of English 7.2 The Formal Syntax of PL 7.3 Introduction to Symbolization 7.4 Symbolization Fine-Tuned 7.5 The Language PLE (Predicate Logic Extended) Chapter 8: Predicate Logic: Semantics 8.1 Interpretations 8.2 Quantificational Truth, Falsehood, and Indeterminacy 8.3 Quantificational Equivalence and Consistency 8.4 Quantification Entailment and Validity 8.5 Truth-Functional Expansions 8.6 Semantics for Predicate Logic with Identity and Functors Chapter 9: Predicate Logic: Truth-Trees 9.1 Truth-Tree Rules for PL 9.2 Truth-Trees and Quantificational Consistency 9.3 Truth-Trees and Other Semantic Properties 9.4 Fine-Tuning the Tree Method 9.5 Trees for PLE Chapter 10: Predicate Logic: Derivations 10.1 The Derivation System PD 10.2 Using Derivations to Establish Syntactic Properties of PD 10.3 The Derivation System PD+ 10.4 The Derivation System PDE Chapter 11: Predicate Logic: Metatheory 11.1 Semantic Preliminaries for PD 11.2 Semantic Preliminaries for PLE 11.3 The Soundness of PD, PD+, and PDE 11.4 The Completeness of PD, PD+, and PDE 11.5 The Soundness of the Tree Method 11.6 The Completeness of the Tree Method Selected Bibliography Index Index of Symbols