Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Thinking About Logic : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic - Stephen Read

Thinking About Logic

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic

By: Stephen Read

Paperback | 5 September 2000

At a Glance

Paperback


$45.05

or 4 interest-free payments of $11.26 with

 or 

Ships in 7 to 10 business days

Logic deals with the inevitable - those consequences which follow inescapably from a given set of premisses. This fact has caused it to be seen as different from other more self-questioning branches of philosophy. In this book, Stephen Read sets out to rescue logic from its undeserved reputation as an inflexible, dogmatic discipline by demonstrating that its technicalities and processes are founded on assumptions which are themselves amenable to philosophical investigation. He examines the fundamental principles of consequence, logical truth and correct inference within the context of logic, and shows that the principles by which we delineate consequences are themselves not guaranteed free from error. Central to the notion of truth is the beguiling issue of paradox. Its philosophical value, Read shows, lies in exposing the invalid assumption on which the paradox is built. Thinking About Logic also discusses logical puzzles which introduce questions relating to language, the world, and their relationship. While formal logic often employs its own esoteric language, the achievement of this book is to focus on those issues which raise exciting philosophical questions, and to make them intelligible to readers with no previous knowledge of logic.
Industry Reviews

...intelligent, informed, and provocative.....this is a worthy book. I hope it is found by its appropriate audience.--Teaching Philosophy


Highly recommended.--Choice


More in Philosophy & Logic

Rationality : What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Steven Pinker
The Logic of Scientific Discovery : Routledge Classics - Karl Popper
Inductive Probability : Routledge Revivals - J. P. Day
Probability, Objectivity and Evidence : Routledge Revivals - F. C. Benenson
Aristotle's Organon in Old and New Logic : 1800-1950 - Colin Guthrie  King

RRP $170.00

$141.75

17%
OFF
Rationality : Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives - K. I. Manktelow
Philosophy and the Human Sciences - R.J. Anderson
Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse - Hendrik Kaptein
Nature of Information : Shaping Reality, Life, and Consciousness - Joram Beda