Author: Susan Haack
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: logics, philosophy
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1978-10-31
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0521293294
ISBN-13: 9780521293297
The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack’s book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses. Haack discusses the scope and purpose of logic, validity, truth-functions, quantification and ontology, names, descriptions, truth, truth-bearers, the set-theoretical and semantic paradoxes, and modality. She also explores the motivations for a whole range of nonclassical systems o
Author: Rod Girle
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: philosophy, logics, modal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2010-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773536531
ISBN-13: 9780773536531
In Part 1 the reader is introduced to some standard systems of modal logic and encouraged through a series of exercises to become proficient in manipulating these logics. The emphasis is on possible world semantics for modal logics and the semantic emphasis is carried into the formal method, Jeffrey-style truth-trees. Standard truth-trees are extended in a simple and transparent way to take possible worlds into account. Part 2 systematically explores the applications of modal logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, processes, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission. Acces
Author: Rod Girle
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: philosophy, logics, modal
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2001-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773521496
ISBN-13: 9780773521490
In Part 1 the reader is introduced to some standard systems of modal logic and encouraged through a series of exercises to become proficient in manipulating these logics. The emphasis is on possible world semantics for modal logics and the semantic emphasis is carried into the formal method, Jeffrey-style truth-trees. Standard truth-trees are extended in a simple and transparent way to take possible worlds into account. Part 2 systematically explores the applications of modal logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, processes, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission. Acces
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Continuum Pub Group
Keywords: event, worlds, logics
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826494706
ISBN-13: 9780826494702
Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou’s much heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Fifteen years after Badiou’s groundbreaking work first appeared in French, the greatest and most influential contemporary French philosopher finally presents his readers with a truly remarkable follow-up, answering many of the questions posed by his critics and continuing the development of his fascinating theories of truth, subject and event. Appearing in French for the first time in 2006, this hugely important new book is set to make a significant and controversial contributi
Author: Paul A. Weingartner
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: need, sciences, logics, alternative
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2004-01-22
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 3540407448
ISBN-13: 9783540407447
Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in sciences such as quantum physics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The contributions collected in this volume address and explore the question whether the usage of logic in the sciences, especially in modern physics, requires a deviation from classical mathematical logic. The articles in the first part of the book set the scene by describing the context and the dilemma when applying logic in science. In part II the authors offer several logics that deviate in different wa
Author: Greg Restall
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: logics, substructural, introduction
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 041521534X
ISBN-13: 9780415215343
This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term ’susbstructural’. Substructural logics have independently led to significant developments in philosophy, computing and linguistics. An Introduction to Substrucural Logics is the first book to systematically survey the new results and the significant impact that this class of logics has had on a wide range of fields.The following topics are covered:* Proof Theory* Propositional Structures* Frames* Decidability* CodaBoth students and professors of philosophy, computing, linguistics, a
Author: Aihwa Ong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: transnationality, logics, cultural, citizenship, flexible
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822322692
ISBN-13: 9780822322696
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, Flexible Citizenship explores such questions with a focus on the links between the cultural logics of human action and on economic and political processes within the Asia-Pacific, including the impact of these forces on women and family life.Explaining how intensified travel, communications, and mass media
