Logical Form

Andrea Iacona is Professor of Logic at the University of Turin. His main research interests are in logic and philosophy of language. He is the author of Propositions (Name 2002), L'argomentazione (Einaudi 2005, second edition 2010), and Teoria della logica del prim'ordine (with Stefano Cavagnetto), 2010.

“Iacona’s book raises interesting and important questions about the role of logical form in logic and philosophy, and about the role of demonstratives in logic and reasoning.” (Geoff Georgi, dialectica, Vol. 72 (4), 2019)

• Preface.- 1. The early history of logical form.- 2. The ideal of logical perfection.- 3. Formal languages and natural languages.- 4. Logical form and syntactic structure.- 5. Logical form and truth conditions.- 6. Logical knowledge vs knowledge of logical form.- 7. Validity.- 8. Quanti ed sentences.- 9. Further issues concerning quanti cation.- Afterword.