David Lewis

Papers in Philosophical Logic

Volume 1
Herausgeber: Dancy, Jonathan; Sosa, Ernest

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780521582476
• ISBN-10: 0521582474
• Artikelnr.: 22066876

Autorenporträt

David Lewis is co-presenter of the New Politics Australia podcast, historian, musicologist, musician and political scientist based in Sydney. His lecturing and research interests include roots music, popular music, Australian, UK and US politics and crime fiction. He has published in Music Forum Australia, Eureka Street, Quadrant, Crikey and has edited several books.

Inhaltsangabe

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.