Logic list 5

If A, Then B

How the World Discovered Logic

by Michael Shenefelt, Heidi White
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where...

Set Theory and Logic

by Robert R. Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012

Set Theory and Logic is the result of a course of lectures for advanced undergraduates, developed at Oberlin College for the purpose of introducing students to the conceptual foundations of mathematics. Mathematics, specifically the real number system, is approached as a unity whose operations can...

Logic: A History of its Central Concepts

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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It is the first work in English in which the history of logic is presented so extensively. The volumes are...

The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic

From Aristotle to Tarski

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic introduces ideas and thinkers central to the development of philosophical and formal logic. From its Aristotelian origins to the present-day arguments, logic is broken down into four main time periods: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Aristotle and...

Studies in Logic and Probability

by George Boole
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

From one of the founders of symbolic logic comes this collection of writings on logical subjects and related questions of probability. George Boole invented Boolean logic, the basis of modern digital computer logic, for which he is regarded as a founder of the field of computer science. This authoritative...

Proceedings of the 12th Asian Logic Conference

by Rod Downey, Jörg Brendle, Robert Goldblatt;Byunghan Kim
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

The Asian Logic Conference is the most significant logic meeting outside of North America and Europe, and this volume represents work presented at, and arising from the 12th meeting. It collects a number of interesting papers from experts in the field. It covers many areas of logic. Contents: Resolute...

Meaning in Dialogue

An Interactive Approach to Logic and Reasoning

by James Trafford
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

This book argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning. This is both a continuation, and a substantial modification, of an inferentialist approach to logic. As such, the book not only provides a critical introduction...

Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to...

Modal Logic for Philosophers

by James W. Garson
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

This book on modal logic is especially designed for philosophy students. It provides an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications. Every effort is made to simplify the presentation by using diagrams instead of more complex mathematical apparatus....

Logic, Language, and Probability

A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...

Classical Mathematical Logic

The Semantic Foundations of Logic

by Richard L. Epstein, Leslaw W. Szczerba
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011

In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not...

Philosophical Logic: Current Trends in Asia

Proceedings of AWPL-TPLC 2016

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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017

This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians, mainly from Asia, to address a variety of logical and philosophical topics of current interest, offering a representative cross-section of the philosophical logic landscape in early 21st-century...

The Evolution of Logic

by W. D. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010

Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic. These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes,...

Towards an Arithmetical Logic

The Arithmetical Foundations of Logic

by Yvon Gauthier
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015

This book offers an original contribution to the foundations of logic and mathematics and focuses on the internal logic of mathematical theories, from arithmetic or number theory to algebraic geometry. Arithmetical logic is the term used to refer to the internal logic of classical arithmetic, here...