Possibilities and Paradox

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925987-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Extensively classroom-tested, this text provides an accessible and carefully structured introduction to modal and many-valued logic. The authors cover the basic formal frameworks, as well as considering a variety of philosophical issues surrounding 'possibilities and paradox'.

Extensively classroom-tested, this text provides an accessible and carefully structured introduction to modal and many-valued logic. The authors cover the basic formal frameworks, as well as considering a variety of philosophical issues surrounding 'possibilities and paradox'.;In order to aid understanding, each chapter provides the following features: exercises to give students hands-on experience, examples to demonstrate the application of concepts and a list of further readings.

PART 1; Preliminaries; 1. Philosophical Motives; 2. Set-Theoretic Tools; 3. Languages and Logics; 4. Tableaux; PART 2; Possibilities; 5. Normal Modal Logics; 6. Variations on a Theme; PART 3; Paradox; 7. Around Truth and Falsity; 8. Gaps, Gluts and Liars; 9. Heaps, Supertruth and the Continuum; PART 4; Metatheory; 10. Further Tools; 11. Logical Systems and Completeness; 12. Meta-Theorems for Non-Classical Logics; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beall, Jc

van Fraassen, Bas C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Über Autor(innen)

JC Beall is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Forthcoming publications include 'Logical Pluralism' (with Greg Restall) and 'Deflationism and Paradox' (edited with Bradley Armour-Garb).

Bas C. van Fraassen is the McCosh Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

Past publications include 'The Empirical Stance' (2002), 'Topics in the Foundation of Statistics' (1997) and 'Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View' (1991).