
Logic and How it Gets That Way
Dale Jacquette(Author)
Acumen Publishing Ltd
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2008
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-84465-142-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84465-142-9 (9781844651429)
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Person
Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Content
Preface Introduction: logic, philosophy, analysis 1. Logical form 2. Monkey raisins 3. The secret life of truth functions 4. Reference and identity 5. Intensional versus extensional semantics 6. Truth 7. Logical and semantic paradoxes Conclusion: Moral lessons of logic Notes Bibliography Index