Philosophy of Logic Books

New and Published Books

1. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)

   By Hilary Putnam

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the...

   Published October 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. Philosophy of Logic (Routledge Revivals)

   By Hilary Putnam

   First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Theory of Logical Types (Routledge Revivals)

   By Irving Copi

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This reissue, first published in 1971, provides a brief historical account of the Theory of Logical Types; and describes the problems that gave rise to it, its various different formulations (Simple and Ramified), the difficulties connected with each, and the criticisms that have been directed...

   Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

   By Mark Textor

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language. Frege’s writings are difficult and deal with...

   Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge
6. Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties

   By P.F. Strawson

   By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalism is a profound reflection on two classic philosophical problems by a philosopher at the pinnacle of his career. Based on his...

   Published April 13th 2008 by Routledge
7. Logic

   An Introduction

   By Greg Restall

   Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy

   The methods of logic are essential to an understanding of philosophy and are crucial in the study of mathematics, computing, linguistics and many other subjects. Introducing the major concepts and techniques involved in the study of logic, this authoritative book explores both formal and...

   Published December 12th 2005 by Routledge
8. Gottlob Frege

   Edited by Michael Beaney, Erich Reck

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) taught at the University of Jena for thirty years, and was scarcely known outside a small circle of professional mathematicians and philosophers. However, later in the twentieth century he came to be recognized as someone who, in demonstrating the affinity of logic with...

   Published December 6th 2005 by Routledge
9. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 4

   Foundations of Logic, 1903-05

   Edited by Alasdair Urquhart, Albert C. Lewis

   Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

   This volume covers the period from the beginning of Whitehead and Russell's work on Volume 2 of the Principles of Mathematics to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905. Contains many previously unpublished manuscripts....

   Published June 1st 1994 by Routledge
10. Philosophical Logic

    An Introduction

    By Sybil Wolfram

    A basic introduction to the subject which addresses questions of truth and meaning, providing a basis for much of what is discussed elsewhere in philosophy. Up-to-date and comprehensive....

    Published April 5th 1989 by Routledge