The Logic in Philosophy of Science

ISBN-13: 9781107527744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str.

Hans Halvorson

Opis

Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.

Recenzje

'Hans Halvorson's The Logic in Philosophy of Science is highly impressive-technically astute and philosophically accomplished … [this] is obviously a work of technical brilliance and philosophical acumen.' T. Parent, Metascience

Spis treści

Introduction: 1. Invitation to metatheory; 2. The category of sets; 3. The category of propositional theories; 4. Syntactic metalogic; 5. Syntactic metalogic redux; 6. Semantic metalogic; 7. Semantic metalogic redux; 8. From metatheory to philosophy.