Review of John P. BURGESS, Philosophical Logic (original) (raw)

Mathematical Reviews

Abstract

The book is a short introduction to five non-classical logics (temporal, modal, conditional, relevantistic, and intuitionistic). In its 153 pages it has room for several items that students and non-specialists will thank: the philosophical motivations of the technical developments are treated; some useful suggestions for further readings are given (in particular, the reader is provided with sources of “second opinions”); and a number of technical proofs of the main results are given or at least sketched, leaving nonetheless to the reader the option of skipping them. Understandably, the book has not room for any compilation of “end-of-chapter problem sets” (sometimes offered as a complement to logic textbooks); it also has to neglect a systematic history of the different non- classical developments; and, finally, as a general rule, the technical results have preeminence over the discussion of the philosophical issues that underlie or are raised by them. http://hdl.handle.net/10171/29677

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