Modal Logic: An Introduction

by Brian F. Chellas

• ISBN13: 9780521295154
• ISBN10: 0521295157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-02-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

"Modal Logic" is a textbook on modal logic, intended for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic. 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. There are nearly 500 exercises. This has been a rapidly expanding branch of logic over the last ten years, 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 of the kind that is very badly needed: his exposition is distinguished by its clarity, economy and elegance, and the book is expected to supplant existing textbooks in the field.

Table of Contents

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.