Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic

✍ Scribed by Roberto Ciuni, Heinrich Wansing, Caroline Willkommen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Series: Trends in Logic 41
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents recent advances in philosophical logic with chapters focusing on non-classical logics, including paraconsistent logics, substructural logics, modal logics of agency and other modal logics. The authors cover themes such as the knowability paradox, tableaux and sequent calculi, natural deduction, definite descriptions, identity, truth, dialetheism and possible worlds semantics.

The developments presented here focus on challenging problems in the specification of fundamental philosophical notions, as well as presenting new techniques and tools, thereby contributing to the development of the field. Each chapter contains a bibliography, to assist the reader in making connections in the specific areas covered. Thus this work provides both a starting point for further investigations into philosophical logic and an update on advances, techniques and applications in a dynamic field.

The chapters originate from papers presented during the Trends in Logic XI conference at the Ruhr University Bochum, June 2012.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Semantic Defectiveness: A Dissolution of Semantic Pathology....Pages 1-12
Emptiness and Discharge in Sequent Calculus and Natural Deduction....Pages 13-29
The Knowability Paradox in the Light of a Logic for Pragmatics....Pages 31-46
A Dialetheic Interpretation of Classical Logic....Pages 47-57
Strongly Semantic Information as Information About the Truth....Pages 59-74
Priest’s Motorbike and Tolerant Identity....Pages 75-83
How to Unify Russellian and Strawsonian Definite Descriptions....Pages 85-101
Tableau Metatheorem for Modal Logics....Pages 103-126
On the Essential Flatness of Possible Worlds....Pages 127-137
Collective Alternatives....Pages 139-144
da Costa Meets Belnap and Nelson....Pages 145-166
Explicating the Notion of Truth Within Transparent Intensional Logic....Pages 167-177
Leibnizian Intensional Semantics for Syllogistic Reasoning....Pages 179-194
Inter-Model Connectives and Substructural Logics....Pages 195-209

✦ Subjects

Logic; Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Epistemology