Modal Logic for Philosophers
2nd Edition
- Author: James W. Garson, University of Houston
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107609525
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This book on modal logic is especially designed for philosophy students. It provides an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications. Every effort is made to simplify the presentation by using diagrams instead of more complex mathematical apparatus. These and other innovations provide philosophers with easy access to a rich variety of topics in modal logic, including a full coverage of quantified modal logic, non-rigid designators, definite descriptions, and the de-re de-dicto distinction. Discussion of philosophical issues concerning the development of modal logic is woven into the text. The book uses natural deduction systems, which are widely regarded as the easiest to teach and use. It also includes a diagram technique that extends the method of truth trees to modal logic. This provides a foundation for a novel method for showing completeness that is easy to extend to quantifiers. This second edition contains a new chapter on logics of conditionals, an updated and expanded bibliography, and is updated throughout.
Read more- Makes extensive use of diagrams to simplify the presentation of technical material
- Methods for proving technical results are presented which simplify the proofs, especially when quantifiers are introduced
- Updated throughout, this second edition clarifies a number of technical results, contains a new chapter on logics of conditionals, and includes an updated and expanded bibliography
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107609525
- length: 506 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- contains: 35 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1. The System K: a foundation for modal logic
2. Extensions of K
3. Basic concepts of intensional semantics
4. Trees for K
5. The accessibility of relation
6. Trees for extensions of K
7. Converting trees to proofs
8. Adequacy of propositional modal logics
9. Completeness of using canonical models
10. Axioms and their corresponding conditions on R
11. Relations between the modal logics
12. Systems of quantified modal logic
13. Semantics for quantified modal logics
14. Trees for quantified modal logics
15. The adequacy of quantified modal logics
16. Completeness of quantified modal logics using trees
17. Completeness using canonical models
18. Descriptions
19. Lambda abstraction
20. Conditionals.
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