This is Greg Restall’s website, with news, writings, links, and bite sized updates. For background look below.
“Logic,” pages 64–93 in Fundamentals of Philosophy, edited by John Shand, Routledge, 2003.
An introduction to the formal and philosophical logic, for a general introductory handbook to philosophy. I introduce the concepts of deductive and inductive validity, formal languages, proofs, models, soundness and completeness, and many other things besides.
Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2003
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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.
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This site is handcoded: I write text in Textmate, and Webby files things in the right place and uploads them to the server. This page was last modified on 2009-01-03 at 01:50AM.
When I started writing this book, I intended to explain in the preface that this was the history of epistemology since Kant, the way Carnap would have written it had he been Hegel.
— Alberto Coffa’s preface to The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap.