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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Philosophy of logic is the area of philosophy that studies the scope and nature of logic. It investigates the philosophical ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Books portal; Philosophy portal; Books about logic. Pages in category "Logic books" The following 36 ...
Logic: The Laws of Truth is a 2012 book by Nicholas J. Smith, in which the author provides an introduction to classical logic.It covers the formal tools and techniques of logic and their underlying rationales and broader philosophical significance.
The Logical Investigations (German: Logische Untersuchungen) (1900–1901; second edition 1913) is a two-volume work by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, in which the author discusses the philosophy of logic and criticizes psychologism, the view that logic is based on psychology.
This work is important in the philosophy of science, and more generally, insofar as it outlines the empirical principles Mill would use to justify his moral and political philosophies. An article in "Philosophy of Recent Times" has described this book as an "attempt to expound a psychological system of logic within empiricist principles.”
Logic studies valid forms of inference like modus ponens. Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure of arguments alone, independent of their topic and ...
Mendelson earned his BA from Columbia University and PhD from Cornell University. [3]Mendelson taught mathematics at the college level for more than 30 years, and is the author of books on logic, philosophy of mathematics, calculus, game theory and mathematical analysis.
Timothy Williamson (born 6 August 1955) is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford , and a fellow of New College, Oxford .