Philosophy of Logic

Dale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Philosophy of Mind (1994), Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (1996), Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (1998), Symbolic Logic (2001) and On Boole: Logic as Algebra (2001) as well as numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Wittgenstein.

Preface. Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Logic and Philosophy of Logic: Dale Jacquette.

Part I: Classical Logic:.

1. The Laws of Logic: Arthur Pap.

2. Russell's Mathematical Logic: Kurt Gödel.

3. Which Logic is the Right Logic?: Leslie H. Tharp.

4. What Can Logic Do For Philosophy?: Karl Popper.

Part II: Truth, Propositions and Meaning:.

5. Truth and Meaning: Donald Davidson.

6. Outline of a Theory of Truth: Saul A. Kripke.

7. Tarski's Theory of Truth: Hartry Field.

8. Types and Ontology: Fred Sommers.

9. Propositions: George Bealer.

Part III: Quantifiers and Quantificational Theory:.

10. Logic and Existence: Czeslaw Lejewski.

11. A Plea for Substitutional Quantification: Charles Parsons.

12. Nominalism and the Substitutional Quantifier: Ruth Barcan Marcus.

13. Interpretations of Quantifiers: Thomas Baldwin.

14. Language Games for Quantifiers: Jaakko Hintikka.

Part IV: Validity, Inference and Entailment:.

15. Bolzano's Concept of Consequence: Rolf George.

16. On the Concept of Logical Consequence: Alfred Tarski.

17. The Pure Calculus of Entailment: Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.

18. Formal and Material Consequence: Stephen Read.

19. Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence: John Etchemendy.

Part V Modality, Intensionality and Propositional Attitude:.

20. What are Possible Worlds?: John E. Nolt.

21. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes: W.V.O. Quine.

22. Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic: David Lewis.

23. Interpretation of Quantifiers: Dagfinn Follesdal.

24. A Backward Look at Quine's Animadversions on Modalities: Ruth Barcan Marcus.

25. Quantifying In: David Kaplan.

26. Substitutivity and the Coherence of Quantifying In: Graeme Forbes.

27. The Intensionality of Ontological Commitment: Michael Jubien.

Index.