Modal Logics and Philosophy Second Edition Rod Girle

Modal Logics and Philosophy Second Edition Rod Girle – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780773550759, 0773550755

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• ISBN 10: 0773550755
• ISBN 13: 9780773550759
• Author: Rod Girle

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.

Table contents:

1. Part 1 Formal systems
2. Part 2 Applications

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