What Logics Mean - James W. Garson

What Logics Mean

From Proof Theory to Model-Theoretic Semantics

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Buch | Hardcover
302 Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-03910-0 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
Garson explores meta-questions about what logic does or should do, examining parts of language, especially connectives such as 'and' or 'if'. The book will be valuable for graduates and specialists in logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language.
What do the rules of logic say about the meanings of the symbols they govern? In this book, James W. Garson examines the inferential behaviour of logical connectives (such as 'and', 'or', 'not' and 'if … then'), whose behaviour is defined by strict rules, and proves definitive results concerning exactly what those rules express about connective truth conditions. He explores the ways in which, depending on circumstances, a system of rules may provide no interpretation of a connective at all, or the interpretation we ordinarily expect for it, or an unfamiliar or novel interpretation. He also shows how the novel interpretations thus generated may be used to help analyse philosophical problems such as vagueness and the open future. His book will be valuable for graduates and specialists in logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language.

James W. Garson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He is the author of Modal Logic for Philosophers, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Preface; 1. Introduction to model-theoretic inferentialism; 2. Deductive expression; 3. Local expression; 4. Global expression; 5. Intuitionistic semantics; 6. Conditionals; 7. Disjunction; 8. Negation; 9. Supervaluations and natural semantics; 10. Natural semantics for an open future; 11. The expressive power of sequent calculi; 12. Soundness and completeness for natural semantics; 13. Connections with proof-theoretic semantics; 14. Quantifiers; 15. Natural semantics and vagueness; 16. Modal logic; Summary.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.11.2013
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Gewicht 700 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-107-03910-X / 110703910X
ISBN-13 978-1-107-03910-0 / 9781107039100
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