Logical Options: An Introduction to Classical and Alternative Logics

by J.L. Bell, David DeVidi, Graham Solomon

Logical Options introduces the extensions and alternatives to classical logic which are most discussed in the philosophical literature: many-sorted logic, second-order logic, modal logics, intuitionistic logic, three-valued logic, fuzzy logic, and free logic. Each logic is introduced with a brief description of some aspect of its philosophical significance, and wherever possible semantic and proof methods are employed to facilitate comparison of the various systems. The book is designed to be useful for philosophy students and professional philosophers who have learned some classical first-order logic and would like to learn about other logics important to their philosophical work.

Genres: Philosophy

312 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2001

About the author

John Bell (b. March 25, 1945) is professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 2006-07, he was named the first Graham and Gail Wright Faculty of Arts Distinguished Scholar at the University of Western Ontario. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was admitted on a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of 15, and graduated with a D.Phil. in Mathematics at the age of 21. His dissertation supervisor was John Crossley.[1]

He was appointed assistant lecturer in the Mathematics Department at the London School of Economics in 1968, and was appointed reader in Mathematical Logic in 1980. He taught at LSE until 1989. During this time, he served as visiting fellow at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1975) and National University of Singapore (1980, 1982). In 1989, he took a position as professor in the Philosophy Department at UWO. He is also an adjunct professor in the Mathematics Department at UWO.[1]

John Bell's students include Graham Priest (Ph.D. Mathematics LSE, 1972), Michael Hallet (Ph.D. Philosophy LSE, 1979), Elaine Landry (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1997) and David DeVidi (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1994).

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