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Informationen zum Autor Ernest Lepore is Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of mind and is co-author (with Herman Cappelen) of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004), co-author (with Jerry Fodor) of Holism (Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989). He is co-editor (with Zenon Pylyshyn) of What is Cognitive Science ? (Blackwell, 1999), and co-editor (with Robert Van Gulick) of John Searle and His Critics (Blackwell, 1992), as well as general editor of the series Philosophers and Their Critics, also published by Wiley-Blackwell. Sam Cumming is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Meaning and Argument is a popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language.* Offers a distinctive philosophical, rather than mathematical, approach to logic* Concentrates on symbolization and works out all the technical logic with truth tables instead of derivations* Incorporates the insights of half a century's work in philosophy and linguistics on anaphora by Peter Geach, Gareth Evans, Hans Kamp, and Irene Heim among others* Contains numerous exercises and a corresponding answer key* An extensive appendix allows readers to explore subjects that go beyond what is usually covered in an introductory logic course* Updated edition includes over a dozen new problem sets and revisions throughout* Features an accompanying website at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~logic/MeaningArgument.html Zusammenfassung Revised 2nd edition of this popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to Revised Second Edition xiii Preface to Second Edition xiv Preface to Revised Edition xv Acknowledgments xvi Introduction to Teacher 1 1 A Brief Introduction to Key Terms 5 1.1 Arguments 5 1.1.1 What is a Statement? 6 1.1.2 Premises and Conclusion 6 1.2 Putting Arguments into a Standard Format 7 1.3 Multiple Conclusions 9 1.4 Deductive Validity 10 1.5 Soundness 13 1.6 Missing Premises and Conclusions 13 2 Argument Forms and Propositional Logic 17 2.1 Formal Validity 17 2.2 Quotation Marks 19 2.3 Metalinguistic Variables 21 2.4 Non-formal Validity 23 2.5 The Need for Propositional Logic 24 2.5.1 Symbolic Notation 25 2.6 The Type/Token Distinction 26 3 Conjunction 31 3.1 Logical Conjunction 31 3.2 Distinguishing Deductive from Non-deductive Aspects of Conjunction 33 3.3 Phrasal Logical Conjunctions 34 3.4 Series Decompounding 34 3.5 Using 'Respectively' 35 3.6 Symbolizing Logical Conjunctions 35 4 Negation 42 4.1 Logical Negation 42 4.2 Some Other Negative Expressions 43 4.3 A Point about Methodology 45 4.4 A Point on Ambiguity 45 4.5 Symbolizing Logical Negations 45 4.6 Ambiguity and the Need for Groupers 46 4.7 Review of Symbols 47 4.8 Using 'Without' 48 4.9 Argument Forms Continued 48 4.10 Symbolizing Logical Negations Continued 51 5 Truth Tables 56 5.1 Well-formed Formulas 56 5.2 Scope 57 5.3 Main Connective 58 5.4 Truth Tables 59 5.4.1 Truth Table Analyses of Statements 61 5.4.2 Truth Table Analyses of Arguments 64 6 Disjunction 68 6.1 Logical Disjunction 68 6.2 Disjunction and Negation 69 6.3 Iterations and Groupers 71 6.4 Inclusive versus Exclusive 'Or' 73 6.5 Symbolizing Logical Disjunctions Continued 76 7 Conditionals 79 7.1 Conditionals with Constituent Statements 79 7.2 Conditionals without Constituent S...
