Papers in Philosophical Logic: Volume 1This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. The purpose of this collection (and the two volumes to follow) is to disseminate even more widely the work of a preeminent and influential late twentieth-century philosopher. The papers are now offered in a readily accessible format. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalised languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the differences between analog and digital representation, and questions arising from the construction of ambitious formalised philosophical systems. The volume will serve as an important reference tool for all philosophers and their students. |
Contents
Adverbs of quantification | 5 |
Index context and content | 21 |
Whether report | 45 |
Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II | 57 |
Intensional logics without iterative axioms | 66 |
Ordering semantics and premise semantics for counterfactuals | 77 |
Logic for equivocators | 97 |
Relevant implication | 111 |
Analog and digital | 159 |
Lucas against mechanism | 166 |
Lucas against mechanism II | 170 |
Policing the Aufbau | 174 |
Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals | 180 |
Nominalistic set theory | 186 |
Mathematics is megethology | 203 |
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Statements partly about observation | 125 |
Ayers first empiricist criterion of meaning why does it fail? | 156 |
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A-consistent premise set A-world Absolute is cruel adverbs alike with respect ambiguity analytic assignment atoms axioms Ayer's closure Compositional Principle conditionalizing conjunction corpus counterfactual define disambiguation disjunction donkey entails entirely about observation equivalence relation ex falso quodlibet exactly false features of context finite formula fragments fusion given Goodman grammar if-clauses implication individuals infinite intensional interior J. R. Lucas Klein 4-group language LEMMA Limit Assumption Lucas arithmetic mathematics maximal connected megethology membership mereology negation Nelson Goodman non-iterative null set observation-statements ordering frame ordering semantics overlap partly about observation Peano arithmetic Peano axioms Philosophical physical magnitude premise frame premise semantics pseudo-members pseudo-sets quality classes quantifiers quodlibet relevant logic Robert Stalnaker semantic values sense sentence set theory singleton function Stalnaker statement entirely subclass subject matter supervenience Suppose theorem Thesis things tion true according truth condition truth value truth-functional truth-functional compound University variables verifiable whether'-clause