Modal logics and philosophy / Rod Girlie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Girle, Rod, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Logic).

Philosophy--Mathematical models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Canada] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Argument and Modality

Formal systems

A Simple Modal Logic

The Normal Modal Logics

The Non-Normal Modal Logics

Natural Deduction and Axiomatics

Conditional logic

Modal Predicate Logics

Quantifiers and Existence

Applications

Alethic Modality

Temporal Logic

Dynamic Logic

Epistemic Logic

Deontic Logic

Conditionals and Reliability

Synthesis and Worlds

Answers

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7735-5075-5