Papers in Philosophical Logic

by David Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780521587884
• ISBN10: 0521587883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Adverbs of quantification	5	(16)
Index, context, and content	21	(24)
`Whether' report	45	(12)
Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II	57	(9)
Intensional logics without iterative axioms	66	(11)
Ordering semantics and premise semantics for counterfactuals	77	(20)
Logic for equivocators	97	(14)
Relevant implication	111	(14)
Statements partly about observation	125	(31)
Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?	156	(3)
Analog and digital	159	(7)
Lucas against mechanism	166	(4)
Lucas against mechanism II	170	(4)
Policing the Aufbau	174	(6)
Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges)	180	(6)
Nominalistic set theory	186	(17)
Mathematics is megethology	203	(28)
Index	231