逻辑哲学/Philosophy of Logic
 
Introduction: Philosophy of Logics PHIL130048.01
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Philosophy of Logics PHIL130048.01


  

Instructor:Prof. Shao Qiangjin

Classroom Location:

Days & Hours:

  

Office: Guanghua West Main building, Room 2517

Office Phone: 021-55665070

Mobile Phone:13817229788

Office Hours:by appointment

Email:qjshao@fudan.edu.cn

  

Textbook:

Philosophy of Logics, by Susan Haack, Cambridge University Press, 1978

The Logical Manual,by Volker Halbach, Oxford University Press, 2011

  

Supplementary Material:

Topics in philosophical logic,by Nicholas Rescher, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1969

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, byLudwig Wittgenstein, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1923.

Handbook of Philosophical Logic, ed. Dov Gabbay and F. Guenthner. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 19839.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidbyDouglas R. Hofstadter, theCommercial Press, 1995.

Handbook of Logic and Language, ed. Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.


Course Objectives:

This course will help the attendants to fuse effectively the studies of logic knowledge and cultivation of the abilities of philosophical dialectics, promote their attainments of philosophical analysis. The course will discuss the philosophical topics along with the logical inquiries; explore the metaphysical problem of logics, the epistemological status of logics, and the relationship between the formal and ordinary languages. From the point view of philosophy, the course will analysis the basic logic notions, such as sentential connectives and letters, quantifiers, variables, singular terms, formal validity, truth and logical truth, etc, which will prefer to the understanding of logic and philosophy.



Course Requirements:

This course will welcome all those students who are interest in Logic and Philosophy, it will be better if the attendants know something about propositional Logic or predicate Logic, but normally the course has no requirement for Logic background to the undergraduate students. The instructor will discuss with students regularly, and every attendant must do an oral presentation and hand in at least one paper during the course based on the material given by the instructor and pass the final exam by the end of the semester.

  

Recommended Reading:

Book series:

Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Library of Philosophy and Logic. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Internet:

http://www.nd.edu/~ndjfl/index.htmlNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

http://www.aslonline.org/Association for Symbolic Logic

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htmGuide to Philosophy on the Internet (Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, EarlhamCollege)