Thinking about logic : classic essays / edited by Steven M. Cahn, Robert B. Talisse. Scott F. Aikin.

Contributor Cahn, Steven M.

Imprint:Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2011.

Descriptionvii, 215 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:I. LOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE: 1. What the tortoise said to Achilles / Lewis Carroll -- 2. What Achilles said to the tortoise / W.J. Rees -- 3. What Achilles should have said to the tortoise / J.F. Thomson -- Questions -- II. LOGIC AND DEFINITION: 4. The runabout inference-ticket / A.N. Prior -- 5. Roundabout the runabout inference-ticket / J.T. Stevenson -- 6. Tonk, plonk and plink / Nuel D. Belnap -- Questions -- III. LOGIC AND INFERENCE: 7. A counterexample to modus ponens / Vann McGee -- 8. Not a counterexample to modus ponens / E.J. Lowe -- 9. Assumptions and the supposed counterexamples to modus ponens / D.E. Over Questions -- IV. LOGIC AND FREEDOM: 10. 'It was to be' / Gilbert Ryle -- 11. Fatalism / Richard Taylor -- 12. Time, truth, and ability / Richard Taylor, Steven M. Cahn -- Questions -- V. LOGIC AND REALITY: 13. The justification of deduction / Susan Haack -- 14. The problem of counterfactual conditionals / Nelson Goodman -- 15. On what there is / Willard V. Quine -- Questions.

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