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The Metaphysics of Logic - Softcover

 
9781108433242: The Metaphysics of Logic
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1108433243 ISBN 13: 9781108433242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Featuring fourteen new essays from an international team of renowned contributors, this volume explores the key issues, debates and questions in the metaphysics of logic. The book is structured in three parts, looking first at the main positions in the nature of logic, such as realism, pluralism, relativism, objectivity, nihilism, conceptualism, and conventionalism, then focusing on historical topics such as the medieval Aristotelian view of logic, the problem of universals, and Bolzano's logical realism. The final section tackles specific issues such as glutty theories, contradiction, the metaphysical conception of logical truth, and the possible revision of logic. The volume will provide readers with a rich and wide-ranging survey, a valuable digest of the many views in this area, and a long overdue investigation of logic's relationship to us and the world. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of philosophy, logic, and mathematics.

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About the Author

Penelope Rush is Honorary Associate with the School of Philosophy and Online Lecturer for Student Learning at the University of Tasmania. She has published articles in journals including Logic and Logical Philosophy, Review of Symbolic Logic, South African Journal of Philosophy, Studia Philosophica Estonica, and Logique et Analyse. She is also the author of The Paradoxes of Mathematical, Logical, and Scientific Realism (forthcoming).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108433243
ISBN 13 
9781108433242
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
277
Editor
Rush Penelope