An Introduction to Philosophical Logic

A.C. Grayling is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and aFellow of St Anne's Colege, Oxford.

Preface. 1. Philosophical Logic, the Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy and Logic.

2. The Proposition.

3. Necessity, Analyticity and the A Priori.

4. Existence, Presuppositions and Descriptions.

5. Truth: The Pragmatic and Coherence and Correspondence Theories.

6. Truth: Semantics, Deflation, Idefinability and Evaluation.

7. Meaning, Reference, Verification and Use.

8. Truth, Meaning, Realism and Anti-realism.

9. Realism, Anti-realism, Idealism, Relativism.

Bibliography.

Index.