Lepore / Cumming Meaning and Argument

An Introduction to Logic Through Language, 2nd, Revised Edition
2. Revised Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-45521-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Meaning and Argument is a popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language.
* Offers a distinctive philosophical, rather than mathematical, approach to logic
* Concentrates on symbolization and works out all the technical logic with truth tables instead of derivations
* Incorporates the insights of half a century's work in philosophy and linguistics on anaphora by Peter Geach, Gareth Evans, Hans Kamp, and Irene Heim among others
* Contains numerous exercises and a corresponding answer key
* An extensive appendix allows readers to explore subjects that go beyond what is usually covered in an introductory logic course
* Updated edition includes over a dozen new problem sets and revisions throughout
* Features an accompanying website at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~logic/MeaningArgument.html

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lepore, Ernest

Cumming, Sam

Über Autor(innen)

Ernest Lepore is Director of the Center for CognitiveScience at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerousarticles in philosophy of mind and is co-author (with HermanCappelen) of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004),co-author (with Jerry Fodor) of Holism (Blackwell, 1991). Heis editor of Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989). Heis co-editor (with Zenon Pylyshyn) of What is CognitiveScience? (Blackwell, 1999), and co-editor (with Robert VanGulick) of John Searle and His Critics (Blackwell, 1992), aswell as general editor of the series Philosophers and TheirCritics, also published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Sam Cumming is Assistant Professor of Philosophy atthe University of California, Los Angeles.