num_pages: 343
description: 'What Grayling's book aims to introduce its readers to is nothing less than ... the most distinctive preoccupation of twentieth-century English-speaking philosophy: its belief in the central importance of philosophical logic ... In supplying a rationalised account of the main twists and turns taken by this dominant trend ... Grayling has succeeded admirably.'Crispin Wright, Times Higher Education SupplementAn Introduction to Philosophical Logic is a popular mainstay among students taking courses in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language. Covering some of the most central topics in philosophy --- the proposition, theories of truth, existence, meaning and reference, realism and anti-realism --- it aims to be an accessible guide to philosophical logic.This new edition keeps the same successful format, with each chapter providing a self-contained introduction to the topic it discusses, rewritten to include updated information. The author has also revised his concluding chapter and completely updated the bibliography.A. C. GraylingThe author is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. His other publications include Philosophy 2 (1998), Moral Values (1998), Russell (1996), Philosophy 1 (1995), Wittgenstein (1988), Berkeley: The Central Arguments (1986), and The Refutation of Scepticism (1985).
language: English
title: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic
titlecomplete: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic
genres: Philosophy, Logic, Nonfiction, Metaphysics
ratings_count: 63
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell