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Reasoning and Formal Logic
eBook - Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well
ISBN/EAN: 9781938421044
Umbreit-Nr.: 6097375
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 191 S., 1.50 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.11.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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- Zusatztext
- This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The basic theme here is the analysis of formal logic in terms of what metaphysical assumptions we need when we develop the formal systems we use. The essays together give a perspective of formal logic as part of the art of reasoning well. The essays are Possibilities and Valid Inferences, A General Framework for Semantics for Propositional Logics, Why Are There So Many Logics? Truth and Reasoning, On Translations, Reflections on Temporal and Modal Logic, The Timelessness of Classical Predicate Logic, Events in the Metaphysics of Predicate Logic, Categoricity with Minimal Metaphysics, Reflections on Gödel's Theorems, On the Error in Frege's Proof that Names Denote, and Postscript: Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well.
- Kurztext
- This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The basic theme here is the analysis of formal logic in terms of what metaphysical assumptions we need when we develop the formal systems we use. The essays together give a perspective of formal logic as part of the art of reasoning well. The essays are Possibilities and Valid Inferences, A General Framework for Semantics for Propositional Logics, Why Are There So Many Logics? Truth and Reasoning, On Translations, Reflections on Temporal and Modal Logic, The Timelessness of Classical Predicate Logic, Events in the Metaphysics of Predicate Logic, Categoricity with Minimal Metaphysics, Reflections on Gdel's Theorems, On the Error in Frege's Proof that Names Denote, and Postscript: Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well.
- Autorenportrait
- Richard L Epstein received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a post-doctoral fellow in mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, a Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He is the author of the series of books "Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well", and the textbooks "Critical Thinking" and "The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking". He is now the Head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.