Logic Primer.

By Colin Allen & Michael Hand

ISBN: 9780262287487

Printed: 1996

Publisher: MIT Press. London

Dimensions 18 × 1 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 18 x x 1

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Paperback. Cream binding with black title on the front board.

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A comprehensive and rigorous but concise introduction to symbolic logic.

Logic Primer offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to symbolic logic, providing concise definitions of key concepts, illustrative examples, and exercises. After presenting the definitions of validity and soundness, the book goes on to introduce a formal language, proof theory, and formal semantics for sentential logic (chapters 1–3) and for first-order predicate logic (chapters 4–6) with identity (chapter 7). The material has been reorganized, increasing the modularity of the text and enabling teachers to choose alternative paths through the book. New exercises have been added, and all exercises are now arranged to support students moving from easier to harder problems.

Its spare and elegant treatment makes Logic Primer unique among textbooks. It presents the material with minimal chattiness, allowing students to proceed more directly from topic to topic and leaving instructors free to cover the subject matter in the way that best suits their students. The book includes more than thirty exercise sets, with answers to many of them provided in an appendix. The book’s website allows students to enter and check proofs, truth tables, and other exercises interactively.

Colin Allen was born in England in 1960 and had a transatlantic upbringing between Britain and the Caribbean, leading to undergraduate studies at the University of London and a PhD at UCLA. Trained in logic and philosophy of language, he nevertheless believes that good philosophy comes from good science, and to separate the two is artificial. While a student at UCLA he got involved with scientists who were studying meaningful communication between monkeys, and since then he has written extensively about the science of animal minds. While at UCLA, he also studied artificial intelligence, and in the last 10 years has become intrigued with the issue of new technologies that are increasingly involved in making moral decisions. Whenever he’s not writing he’s riding his bike wherever in the world he can, but most often around Bloomington, Indiana, where he is professor of cognitive science and professor of history & philosophy of science.

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