Modal Logic for Philosophers
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Modal Logic for Philosophers

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Modal Logic for Philosophers

About this book

This book on modal logic is especially designed for philosophy students. It provides an accessible yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications. Every effort is made to simplify the presentation by using diagrams instead of more complex mathematical apparatus. These and other innovations provide philosophers with easy access to a rich variety of topics in modal logic, including a full coverage of quantified modal logic, non-rigid designators, definite descriptions, and the de-re de-dicto distinction. Discussion of philosophical issues concerning the development of modal logic is woven into the text. The book uses natural deduction systems, which are widely regarded as the easiest to teach and use. It also includes a diagram technique that extends the method of truth trees to modal logic. This provides a foundation for a novel method for showing completeness that is easy to extend to quantifiers. This second edition contains a new chapter on logics of conditionals, an updated and expanded bibliography, and is updated throughout.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Modal Logic for Philosophers
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface to the Second Edition
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction: What Is Modal Logic?
  10. 1 The System K: A Foundation for Modal Logic
  11. 2 Extensions of K
  12. 3 Basic Concepts of Intensional Semantics
  13. 4 Trees for K
  14. 5 The Accessibility Relation
  15. 6 Trees for Extensions of K
  16. 7 Converting Trees to Proofs
  17. 8 Adequacy of Propositional Modal Logics
  18. 9 Completeness Using Canonical Models
  19. 10 Axioms and Their Corresponding Conditions on R
  20. 11 Relationships between the Modal Logics
  21. 12 Systems for Quantified Modal Logic
  22. 13 Semantics for Quantified Modal Logics
  23. 14 Trees for Quantified Modal Logic
  24. 15 The Adequacy of Quantified Modal Logics
  25. 16 Completeness of Quantified Modal Logics Using Trees
  26. 17 Completeness Using Canonical Models
  27. 18 Descriptions
  28. 19 Lambda Abstraction
  29. 20 Conditionals
  30. Answers to Selected Exercises
  31. Bibliography of Works Cited
  32. Index