Papers in Philosophical Logic: Volume 1

This collection of David Lewis's most recent papers is devoted to his work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years.

David Lewis (Author)

9780521582476, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 November 1997

242 pages
22.2 x 14.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.4 kg

This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. The purpose of this collection (and the two volumes to follow) is to disseminate even more widely the work of a preeminent and influential late twentieth-century philosopher. The papers are now offered in a readily accessible format. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalised languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the differences between analog and digital representation, and questions arising from the construction of ambitious formalised philosophical systems. The volume will serve as an important reference tool for all philosophers and their students.

Introduction
1. Adverbs of quantification
2. Index, context, and content
3. 'Whether' report
4. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities
5. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II
6. Intensional logics without iterative axioms
7. Ordering semantics and premise semantics for Counterfactuals
8. Logic for equivocators
9. Relevant implication
10. Statements partly about observation
11. Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?
12. Analog and digital
13. Lucas against mechanism
14. Lucas against mechanism II
15. Policing the Aufbau
16. Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges)
17. Nominalistic set theory
18. Mathematics is megethology
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL]