Modal Logic
An Introduction

A textbook, with exercises, on modal logic for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic.

Brian F. Chellas (Author)

9780521295154, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 February 1980

312 pages
15.6 x 22.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

A textbook on modal logic, intended for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic, containing nearly 500 exercises. Brian F. Chellas provides a systematic introduction to the principal ideas and results in contemporary treatments of modality, including theorems on completeness and decidability. Illustrative chapters focus on deontic logic and conditionality. Modality is a rapidly expanding branch of logic, and familiarity with the subject is now regarded as a necessary part of every philosopher's technical equipment. Chellas here offers an up-to-date and reliable guide essential for the student.

Contents
Preface
Part I: 1. Introduction
2. Logical preliminaries
Part II: 3. Standard models for modal logics: 4. Normal systems of modal logic
5. Determination and decidability for normal systems
6. Deontic logic
Part III: 7. Minimal models for modal logics
8. Classical systems of modal logic
9. Determination and decidability for classical systems
10. Conditional logic
Select bibliography
Index of symbols
Index of schemas, rules, and systems, Index of subjects.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL]