Logic, Language and Philosophy: An Introduction to Standard Logic

A fresh introduction to the field of logic, this book provides a fascinating encounter between linguistics and philosophy utilizing logic.

This book explores the systematic and formal study of reasoning. It introduces the core systems of logic, discusses a portion of its extensions, and illustrates the application of logic in philosophy and linguistics utilizing classical and contemporary sources. In doing so, it provides the students with a rich set of tools along with first-hand experience regarding their applications in the study of rationality and meaning. With lots of exercises, and study and discussion questions, it provides a complete set of materials for courses for a variety of audiences at different levels.
 

Martin Stokhof is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and of the Institut international de philosophie, and of the Academia Europea. He is co-founder of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and co-author of the Gamut two-volume textbook On Logic and Formal Semantics and the author of World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein's Early Thought.