Languages of Logic

Samuel Guttenplan is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely in the areas of logic, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language and is editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1994).

"The book is truly comprehensive, detailed and lucid throughout; in fact it is one of the friendliest introductions to logic I have ever read." Nimrod Bar-Am, Tel Aviv University

• Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition.1. Thinking.2. Arguments.3. Strategy.4. Primitive.5. Sentential.6. Decision.7. Translating into Sentential.8. The Strategy Applied and Extended.9. Deduction.10. Sentential and the Strategy.11. Predicate: Part I.12. Predicate: Part II.13. Translating into Predicate.14. Validity.15. Identity, Problems and Prospects.16. Modal.17. Truth.Appendix 1: How to Learn Logic.Appendix 2: Truth Trees.Appendix 3: Alternative Notations.Answers to Selected Exercises.Reading List.Index.