Routledge Library Editions: Logic
About the Book Series
Reissuing works originally published between 1931 and 1990, this set of twenty-four books covers the full range of the philosophy of logic, from introductions to logic, to calculus and mathematical logic, to logic in language and linguistics and logical reasoning in law and ethics. An international array of authors are represented in this comprehensive collection.
An Introduction to Logic: The Criticism of Arguments
1st Edition
By Peter Alexander
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1969. This book is for undergraduates whether specializing in philosophy or not. It assumes no previous knowledge of logic but aims to show how logical notions arise from, or are abstracted from, everyday discourse, whether technical or non-technical. It sets out a knowledge...
An Introduction to Many-valued Logics
1st Edition
By Robert Ackermann
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1967. An introduction to the literature of nonstandard logic, in particular to those nonstandard logics known as many-valued logics. Part I expounds and discusses implicational calculi, modal logics and many-valued logics and their associated calculi. Part II considers the ...
Meaning, Quantification, Necessity: Themes in Philosophical Logic
1st Edition
By Martin Davies
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of ...
Nondeductive Inference
1st Edition
By Robert Ackermann
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1966. An introduction to current studies of kinds of inference in which validity cannot be determined by ordinary deductive models. In particular, inductive inference, predictive inference, statistical inference, and decision making are examined in some detail. The last ...
Quantification Theory
1st Edition
By J. A. Faris
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1964. This book is concerned with general arguments, by which is meant broadly arguments that rely for their force on the ideas expressed by all, every, any, some, none and other kindred words or phrases. A main object of quantificational logic is to provide methods for ...
The Implications of Induction
1st Edition
By L. Jonathan Cohen
May 01, 2021
Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for analysing inductive support for hypotheses and ...
The Logical Structure of Science
1st Edition
By A. Cornelius Benjamin
May 01, 2021
This book addresses the argument in the history of the philosophy of science between the positivists and the anti-positivists. The author starts from a point of firm conviction that all science and philosophy must start with the given… But that the range of the given is not definite. He begins with...
An Introduction to Logic
1st Edition
By David Mitchell
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument. In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show how far that aim has been ...
Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms
1st Edition
By William J. Greenberg
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1985. This study concerns the problem of treating identity as a relation between an object and itself. It addresses the Russellian and Fregean solutions and goes on to present in the first part a surfacist account of belief-context ambiguity requiring neither ...
Concept and Object: The Unity of the Proposition in Logic and Psychology
1st Edition
By Anthony Palmer
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1988. This text gives a lucid account of the most distinctive and influential responses by twentieth century philosophers to the problem of the unity of the proposition. The problem first became central to twentieth-century philosophy as a result of the depsychoiogising of ...
Creativity, Imagination, Logic: Meditations for the Eleventh Hour
1st Edition
By Horace M. Kallen
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by founder of the New School for Social Research in New York, Horace M. Kallen, touches on topics from language to death and from freedom to value. The author’s treatise explores his understanding of logic and existence....
Elementary Formal Logic: A Programmed Course
1st Edition
By C. L. Hamblin
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1966. This is a self-instructional course intended for first-year university students who have not had previous acquaintance with Logic. The book deals with "propositional" logic by the truth-table method, briefly introducing axiomatic procedures, and proceeds to the theory ...