Modal Logics and Philosophy: Second Edition - Hardcover

Girle, Rod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773536485 ISBN 13: 9780773536487

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The new edition of this widely used and respected textbook includes three new chapters on conditional logic. Other chapters have been revised and updated, making the second edition a fully comprehensive introduction to modal logics and their application. Unlike most modal logic textbooks, which are both forbidding mathematically and short on philosophical discussion, Modal Logics and Philosophy focuses on showing how useful modal logic can be as a tool for formal philosophical analysis. In Part 1, the reader is introduced to some standard systems of modal logic and provided with a series of exercises that encourage proficiency in manipulating these logics. Girle emphasizes possible world semantics for modal logics and its formal method, Jeffrey-style truth-trees, in which standard truth-trees are extended in a simple and transparent way to take possible worlds into account. Part 2 explores the applications of modal logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, processes, knowledge and belief, and obligation and permission.

About this title

About the Author

Rod Girle is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Auckland.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773536485
• ISBN 13: 9780773536487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256