Forms of Thought: A Study in Philosophical Logic - Softcover

Lowe, E. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107540437 ISBN 13: 9781107540439

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional thoughts, about what would or might be the case if something else were the case. Even the simplest thoughts are structured like sentences, containing referential and predicative elements, and studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. This clear and accessible book investigates the forms of thought, drawing out and focusing on the central logical notions of reference, predication, identity, modality and conditionality. It will be useful to students and other interested readers in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and philosophical logic.

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Book Description

Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and distinguish between what is, might, or must be the case; studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. The book will be of interest to students of epistemology and metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and language.

About the Author

E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His publications include Subjects of Experience (Cambridge, 1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge, 2000), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), Personal Agency (2008) and More Kinds of Being (2009). He is a General Editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107540437
• ISBN 13: 9781107540439
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 226