Papers In Philosophical Logic: Volume 1 (cambridge Studies In Philosophy) (v. 1)

This 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. Half-Title......Page 1 Series Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Introduction......Page 7 1 Adverbs of quantification......Page 11 2 Index, context, and content......Page 27 3 'Whether' report......Page 51 4 Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II......Page 63 5 Intensional logics without iterative axioms......Page 72 6 Ordering semantics and premise semantics for counterfactuals......Page 83 7 Logic for equivocators......Page 103 8 Relevant implication......Page 117 9 Statements partly about observation......Page 131 10 Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?......Page 162 11 Analog and digital......Page 165 12 Lucas against mechanism......Page 172 13 Lucas against mechanism II......Page 176 14 Policing the Aufbau......Page 180 15 Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges)......Page 186 16 Nominalistic set theory......Page 192 17 Mathematics is megethology......Page 209 C......Page 237 J......Page 238 S......Page 239 Z......Page 240 Presentación del editor: "This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis's papers in philosophy, except for those which previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986). They are now offered in a readily accessible form. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work in philosophical logic. Topics covered include the formal semantics of natural languages; model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic; contradiction and relevance, the distinction between analog and digital representation; attempts to draw anti-mechanistic conclusions from Godel's theorem; Carnap's Aufbau; mereology and its relationship to set theory. The purpose of this collection, and the two volumes to follow, is to disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher. The volume will serve as a useful work of reference for teachers and students of philosophy." This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis' work on philosophical logic from the past twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalized 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 formalized philosophical systems.

this Collection Of David Lewis's Most Recent Papers Is Devoted To His Work On Philosophical Logic From The Last Twenty-five Years.