Bøger af Willard Van Orman Quine

Mathematical Logic by Willard Van Orman Quine is a comprehensive introduction to the study of mathematical logic. The book covers a wide range of topics in logic, including propositional logic, predicate logic, set theory, and the foundations of mathematics. Quine's approach to logic is highly formal and mathematical, emphasizing the use of symbols and the manipulation of formal systems.The book begins with an overview of propositional logic, including truth tables and the laws of logic. From there, Quine moves on to predicate logic, introducing quantifiers and the concept of logical equivalence. He then covers set theory, discussing the axioms of set theory and the paradoxes that arise from them.Throughout the book, Quine emphasizes the importance of formal systems and the use of symbols in logical reasoning. He also discusses the philosophical implications of mathematical logic, including the relationship between logic and language, and the role of logic in the foundations of mathematics.Overall, Mathematical Logic is a rigorous and thorough introduction to the study of logic, suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, philosophy, and computer science.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Provides philosophers, logicians, and historians with a full translation of Quine's 1942 Portuguese language book, making this crucial stage of his intellectual development available to English speakers. It includes an accompanying historical-philosophical essay setting this work in context and identifying its importance for semantics and ontology.

Selected Logic Papers, long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years.

Here are the most recent writings, some of them unpublished, of the preeminent philosopher of our time. Quine is always, whatever his subject, an elegant writer, witty, precise, and forceful. Admirers of his earlier books will welcome this new volume.

Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose.

With customary incisiveness, Quine presents logic as the product of truth and grammar but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible extensions of logic, he argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.

A new edition of Quine's most important work.

W. V. Quine has produced a sharp, sprightly book that encapsulates the whole of his philosophical enterprise, including his thinking on all the key components of his epistemological stance--especially the value of logic and mathematics.

Quine was one of the 20th century's great philosophers. This volume begins with a number of interviews Quine gave about his perspectives on 20th-century logic, science and philosophy, the ideas of others, and philosophy generally. Also included are his most important articles, reviews, and comments on other philosophers, from Carnap to Strawson.

Quine's widely used textbook of modern formal logic now offers a number of new features: updated notations, selective answers to exercises, expanded treatment of natural deduction, and new discussions of predicate-functor logic and the affinities between higher set theory and the elementary logic of terms.

In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine's prodigious career.

Quintessence collects Quine's classic essays in one volume, offering a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. The selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism.

Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega of the scientific enterprise.