| dc.description.abstract | Having studied mathematics, in particular foundations and philosophy of mathematics,
it happened that I was asked to teach logic to the students in the Faculty
of Philosophy of the Radboud University Nijmegen. It was there that I discovered
that logic is much more than just a mathematical discipline consisting of definitions,
theorems and proofs, and that logic can and should be embedded in a philosophical
context. After ten years of teaching logic at the Faculty of Philosophy at the
Radboud University Nijmegen, thirty years at the Faculty of Philosophy of Tilburg
University and nine years at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Erasmus University
Rotterdam, I got many ideas how to improve my LOGIC book which was published
twenty five years ago in 1993 by Verlag Peter Lang. Although the amount of work
was enormous, I felt I should do it. It is like working on a large painting where you
put some extra color in one corner, add a little detail at another place, shed some
more light on a particular face, etc.
This book was written to serve as an introduction to logic, with special emphasis
on the interplay between logic and mathematics, philosophy, language and computer
science. The reader will not only be provided with an introduction to classical
propositional and predicate logic, but to philosophical (modal, deontic, epistemic)
and intuitionistic logic as well. Arithmetic and G¨odel’s incompleteness theorems
are presented, there is a chapter on the philosophy of language and a chapter with
applications: logic programming, relational databases and SQL, and social choice
theory. The last chapter is on fallacies and unfair discussion methods. | en_US |
