Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic

LOU GOBLE is Professor of Philosophy at Willamette University. He has published numerous articles in philosophical logic in various anthologies and journals such as Journal of Philosophical Logic, Logique et Analyse, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, and other more general philosophy journals.

• List of Contributors viiPreface ixIntroduction 1Lou Goble1 Classical Logic I – First-Order Logic 9Wilfrid Hodges2 Classical Logic II – Higher-Order Logic 33Stewart Shapiro3 Set Theory 55John P. Burgess4 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 72Raymond Smullyan5 Truth 90Anil Gupta6 Logical Consequence 115Patricia A. Blanchette7 Modal Logic 136M. J. Cresswell8 Deontic Logic 159Risto Hilpinen9 Epistemic Logic 183J.-J. Ch. Meyer10 Temporal Logic 203Yde Venema11 Intuitionistic Logic 224Dirk van Dalen12 Free Logics 258Karel Lambert13 Relevant Logics 280Edwin D. Mares and Robert K. Meyer14 Many-Valued Logics 309Grzegorz Malinowski15 Nonmonotonic Logic 336John F. Horty16 Probability, Logic, and Probability Logic 362Alan Hájek17 Conditionals 385Dorothy Edgington18 Negation 415Heinrich Wansing19 Quantifiers 437Dag Westerståhl20 Logic and Natural Language 461Alice ter MeulenIndex 484

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