Bøger af George Englebretsen

The series offers a publication forum for innovative works on all topics of analytic philosophy. The focus is on the disciplines of theoretical philosophy: metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, logic. Furthermore, works that additionally include contributions to the history of philosophy are also welcome.

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental features of the old syllogistic. A number of logicians, following the lead of Fred Sommers, have built just such a term logic. It is a system of formal logic that not only matches the expressive and inferential powers of today's standard logic, but surpasses it and is far simpler and more natural. This book aims to substantiate this claim by exhibiting just how the term logic can shed need light on a variety of challenges that face any system of formal logic.

Surveys the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the defence of the correspondence theory, and then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in epistemology and ontology.

Starting by contrasting familiar classical logic with constructivist or intuitionist logic, this book goes on to offer introductions to such subjects as quantificational and syllogistic logic, modal logic and set theory. It includes chapters: Sentential Logic; Quantificational Logic; Sentential Modal Logic; Set Theory; and, Modal Term Logic.

Delving into the history and envelopment of logic from its beginnings to the modern era, this title rehabilitates the term logic and demonstrates that an enhanced traditional logic remains a viable possibility.

Die Reihe bietet ein Publikationsforum fur innovative Arbeiten zu allen Themengebieten der analytischen Philosophie. Die Bande in dieser Reihe erscheinen in deutscher oder englischer Sprache.