Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth - Softcover

McGinn, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199262632 ISBN 13: 9780199262632

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2003

Synopsis

Identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are vital concepts at the center of philosophy. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Philosophers and logicians have often distorted the nature of these concepts in an attempt to define them according to preconceived ideas. Logical Properties aims to respect the ordinary ways we talk and think when we employ these concepts, while at...

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About the Author

Colin McGinn is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New York.

Review

`Review from previous edition
The writing is indeed crisp, engaging, and free of formalisms ... there is so much of interest in McGinn's book, and its lively style and provocative proposals will no doubt stimulate further work on our "conceptual bedrock".'
The Philosophical Review

`Review from previous edition Clear, direct and well argued .... this lucid and provocative little book.'
Times Higher Education Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199262632
• ISBN 13: 9780199262632
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 124