Logic: A Very Short Introduction

Produktbeschreibung

Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical terms, this edition includes new sections on mathematical algorithms, axioms, and proofs. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1: Validity: what follows from what?
2: Truth funtions - or not?
3: Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
4: Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
5: Self-reference: What is this chapter about?
6: Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
7: Conditionals: what's in an if?
8: The future and the past: is time real?
9: Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
10: Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
11: Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
12: Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it!
13: Decision theory: great expectations
14: Halt! What goes there?
15: Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it!
A little history and some further reading
Glossary
Problems
Problem solutions
Bibliography
General index 

Autoreninfo

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center , as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne (where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy). His books include Doubt Truth to be a Liar (OUP, 2008), One (OUP, 2014), and Towards Non-Being (2nd ed. OUP, 2016).