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Relevant Logic Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)

Relevant Logic By Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)

Relevant Logic by Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)


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This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides the subject with a philosophical interpretation. It offers a systematic account of the motivation, key features and applications of this type of logic, with particular emphasis on its philosophical dimension.

Relevant Logic Summary

Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation by Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)

This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides the subject with a philosophical interpretation. The defining feature of relevant logic is that it forces the premises of an argument to be really used ('relevant') in deriving its conclusion. The logic is placed in the context of possible world semantics and situation semantics, which are then applied to provide an understanding of the various logical particles (especially implication and negation) and natural language conditionals. The book ends by examining various applications of relevant logic and presenting some interesting open problems. It will be of interest to a range of readers including advanced students of logic, philosophical and mathematical logicians, and computer scientists.

About Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)

Edwin D. Mares is Senior Lecturer at the Philosophy Programme, Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on both the philosophical and mathematical aspects of logic, as well as metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Relevant Logic and its Semantics: 1. What is relevant logic and why do we need it?; 2. Possible worlds and beyond; 3. Situating implication; 4. Ontological interlude; 5. Negation; 6. Modality, entailment and quantification; Part II. Conditionals: 7. Indicative conditionals; 8. Counterfactuals; Part III. Inference and its Applications: 9. The structure of deduction; 10. Disjunctive syllogism; 11. Putting relevant logic to work; 12. Afterword; Appendix A: the logic R; Appendix B: Routley-Meyer semantics for R; Glossary; References; Index.

Additional information

NPB9780521829236
9780521829236
0521829232
Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation by Edwin D. Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2004-02-26
240
N/A
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