Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity
Title | Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Goldblatt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2011-07-14 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1107010527 |
Develops new semantical characterisations of many logical systems with quantification that are incomplete under the traditional Kripkean possible worlds interpretation. This book is for mathematical or philosophical logicians, computer scientists and linguists, including academic researchers, teachers and advanced students.
Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity
Title | Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Goldblatt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Logic, Symbolic and mathematical |
ISBN | 9781139101783 |
A Concise Introduction to Logic
Title | A Concise Introduction to Logic PDF eBook |
Author | Craig DeLancey |
Publisher | Open SUNY Textbooks |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-02-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781942341437 |
Necessity, Identity, and Universality
Title | Necessity, Identity, and Universality PDF eBook |
Author | Kai Sørlander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Identity |
ISBN |
Expressing Our Attitudes
Title | Expressing Our Attitudes PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Schroeder |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191023574 |
When the logical positivists espoused emotivism as a theory of moral discourse, they assumed that their general theories of meaning could be straightforwardly applied to the subject of metaethics. The philosophical research program of expressivism, emotivism's contemporary heir, has called this assumption into question. In this volume Mark Schroeder argues that the only plausible ways of developing expressivism or similar views require us to re-think what we may have thought that we knew about propositions, truth, and the nature of attitudes like belief and desire. Informed by detailed scrutiny of the structural problems about understanding complex thoughts, he develops a range of alternative expressivist frameworks in detail as illustrations of general lessons, and applies them not just to metaethics, but to epistemic expressions and even to truth itself. Expressing Our Attitudes pulls together over a decade of work by one of the leading figures in contemporary metaethics. Two new and seven previously published papers weave treatments of propositions, truth, and the attitudes together with detailed development of competing alternative expressivist frameworks and discussion of their relative advantages. A substantial new introduction both offers new arguments of its own, and provides a map to reading these essays as a unified argument. Along with its sister volume, Explaining the Reasons We Share, this volume advances the theme that metaethical inquiry is continuous with other areas of philosophy.
Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language
Title | Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Alessandro Torza |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2015-07-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3319183621 |
This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathematics. It advances an argument for the uniqueness of quantifier meaning in terms of Evert Beth’s notion of implicit definition and clarifies the oldest explicit formulation of quantifier variance: the one proposed by Rudolf Carnap. The volume further examines what it means that a quantifier can have multiple meanings and addresses how existential vagueness can induce vagueness in our modal notions. Finally, the book explores the role played by quantifiers with respect to various kinds of semantic paradoxes, the logicality issue, ontological commitment, and the behavior of quantifiers in intensional contexts.
From Frege to Gödel
Title | From Frege to Gödel PDF eBook |
Author | Jean van Heijenoort |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780674324497 |
Gathered together here are the fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic. A complete translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift—which opened a great epoch in the history of logic by fully presenting propositional calculus and quantification theory—begins the volume, which concludes with papers by Herbrand and by Gödel.