他の哲学との関わりが薄く、実生活に活かせることもあまりない学問…といった倫理学に対する思い込みを変えてくれる、グレアム・プリーストによる近代形式論理学の入門書です。神の存在、時間の現実性から、確立のパラドックスや決定理論に至る幅広い問題に対する論理学の取り組みを紹介し、哲学的ルーツを探ります。数学への応用、論理学の数学的解析といった現代の論理学にも言及すべく、新版にはアルゴリズムと公理、数学的証明を取り上げる2章を追加しました。
New to this Edition:
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
In this new edition Graham Priest expands his discussion to cover the subjects of algorithms and axioms, and proofs in mathematics.
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1: Validity: what follows from what?
2: Truth funtions - or not?
3: Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
4: Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
5: Self-reference: What is this chapter about?
6: Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
7: Conditionals: what's in an if?
8: The future and the past: is time real?
9: Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
10: Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
11: Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
12: Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it!
13: Decision theory: great expectations
14: Halt! What goes there?
15: Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it!
A little history and some further reading
Glossary
Problems
Problem solutions
Bibliography
General index
ISBN : 9780198811701
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