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Author Girle, Rod

Title Modal Logics and Philosophy
Edition 2nd ed
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Argument and modality; Part 1 Formal systems; 2 A simple modal logic; 3 The normal modal logics; 4 The non-normal modal logics; 5 Natural deduction and axiomatics; 6 Conditional logic; 7 Modal predicate logics; 8 Quantifiers and existence; Part 2 Applications; 9 Alethic modality; 10 Temporal logic; 11 Dynamic logic; 12 Epistemic logic; 13 Deontic logic; 14 Conditionals and reliability; 15 Synthesis and worlds; Answers; Index
Summary The first edition, published by Acumen in 2000, became a prescribed textbook on modal logic courses. The second edition has been fully revised in response to readers' suggestions, including two new chapters on conditional logic, which was not covered in the first edition. ""Modal Logics and Philosophy"" is a fully comprehensive introduction to modal logics and their application suitable for course use. Unlike most modal logic textbooks, which are both forbidding mathematically and short on philosophical discussion, ""Modal Logics and Philosophy"" places its emphasis firmly on showing how usefu
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Subject Modality
Philosophy -- Mathematical models
Philosophy -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317492177
131749217X