教学内容 Syllabus & Contents
 

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 Content:

Chap1.Introduction

I. About this course

II. Topics in general

III. Recourses’ of further study

Chap2. A Brief History of Logic

I.A Map of Logic

II. Logic in Western

III. Logic in Ancient India

IV. Logic in Ancient China

V . The status of Logic in contemporary academics

Chap3. Validity

I. Arguments and its assessments

II. Definitions of Validity

III. Validity and Deduction

Chap4 Sentence Connectives

I. Connectives

II. Truth tables

III. Truth Functions and Truth forms

IV. Formal and Informal Considerations

Chap5 Quantifiers

I. The quantifiers and their interpretation

II. Quantification and ontology

III. The Choice of interpretation

Chap6 Singular terms

I. Singular terms

II. Proper names

III. Descriptions

Chap7 Sentence, statement, and proposition

I. Kants judgment theory

II. Sentence, statement, proposition

III. Counterfactuals

Chap8Truth

I.Problems of Truth

II. Different Theories

III. Related Issues

IV. Further Readings

Chap9 Paradoxes

I. what is paradox?

II. solutions to paradoxes

III. Further questions

IV. Further Readings

Chap10 Modal Theories

I. The notion of Modal

II. Possible world

III. Model, frame, and semantics

IV. Several philosophical discussions

  

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.

  

Grading:

Attendance:                                                                                      10%

Contribution to Class Discussion/Oral Presentation                         30%

Final Exam                                                                                        60%

  

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)