Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic. The selections include some of the most important, technically exact, yet lucid and readable expositions of central concepts and controversies in philosophical logic. Areas of coverage include classical logic, truth, propositions and meaning, quantifiers and quantificational theory, validity, inference and entailment, and modality, intensionality and propositional attitude.

Since the articles are written from a variety of perspectives, the reader is able to critically assess the background and current trends in philosophical applications of symbolic logic. The volume also examines the limitations of classical and nonstandard logics.

The book complements Philosophy of Mathematics: An Anthology and A Companion to Philosophical Logic, also edited by Dale Jacquette.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Logic and Philosophy of Logic: Dale Jacquette.

Part I: Classical Logic:.

1. The Laws of Logic: Arthur Pap.

2. Russell′s Mathematical Logic: Kurt Gödel.

3. Which Logic is the Right Logic?: Leslie H. Tharp.

4. What Can Logic Do For Philosophy?: Karl Popper.

Part II: Truth, Propositions and Meaning:.

5. Truth and Meaning: Donald Davidson.

6. Outline of a Theory of Truth: Saul A. Kripke.

7. Tarski′s Theory of Truth: Hartry Field.

8. Types and Ontology: Fred Sommers.

9. Propositions: George Bealer.

Part III: Quantifiers and Quantificational Theory:.

10. Logic and Existence: Czeslaw Lejewski.

11. A Plea for Substitutional Quantification: Charles Parsons.

12. Nominalism and the Substitutional Quantifier: Ruth Barcan Marcus.

13. Interpretations of Quantifiers: Thomas Baldwin.

14. Language Games for Quantifiers: Jaakko Hintikka.

Part IV: Validity, Inference and Entailment:.

15. Bolzano′s Concept of Consequence: Rolf George.

16. On the Concept of Logical Consequence: Alfred Tarski.

17. The Pure Calculus of Entailment: Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.

18. Formal and Material Consequence: Stephen Read.

19. Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence: John Etchemendy.

Part V Modality, Intensionality and Propositional Attitude:.

20. What are Possible Worlds?: John E. Nolt.

21. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes: W.V.O. Quine.

22. Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic: David Lewis.

23. Interpretation of Quantifiers: Dagfinn Follesdal.

24. A Backward Look at Quine′s Animadversions on Modalities: Ruth Barcan Marcus.

25. Quantifying In: David Kaplan.

26. Substitutivity and the Coherence of Quantifying In: Graeme Forbes.

27. The Intensionality of Ontological Commitment: Michael Jubien.

Index.

Dale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Philosophy of Mind (1994), Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (1996), Wittgenstein′s Thought in Transition (1998), Symbolic Logic (2001) and On Boole: Logic as Algebra (2001) as well as numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Wittgenstein.

"The Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies have set a very high standard and Dale Jacquette′s Philosophy of Logic handily maintains this customary level of breadth of coverage and importance of content. Its inclusion of a vast amount of interesting material will make teaching from this anthology a delight." Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh <!––end––>

"Dale Jacquette in Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology brings together some of the most important papers in twentieth–century philosophy of logic ... as a source book for a course on philosophy of logic it is a useful collection. It would also provide supplementary reading for courses on philosophy of mathematics or language." Times Higher Education Supplement