TOPICS IN LOGIC
Code
711031081
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Paulo Melo
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Study of key topics within the scope of philosophical logic
b) A comprehensive analysis of such topics, aiming at an elucidation of relevant problems in connection with logic and other areas of philosophical knowledge, as epistemology and ontology
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
Each year, some topics of the following (not exhaustive) list will be selected: conceptions of Logic; natural deduction calculus versus axiomatic calculus; metalogical basic theorems; paradoxes; logical validity; the distinction between analytic statements and synthetic statements; necessary truths and essentialism; predicative or not predicative nature of \"exists\"; reference and modality; proper names, singular terms, general terms and natural kind terms; truth functions; universal quantification and existential quantification; quantification in extensional and intensional contexts; objectual and substitutional quantification.
Bibliography
* Jacquette, Dale (ed.), «A Companion to Philosophical Logic», Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2006
* Quine, W. V., «Philosophy of Logic», Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1970
* Sainsbury, Mark, «Logical Forms», Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991
* Strawson, P. F. (ed.), «Philosophical Logic», Oxford University Press, London, 1967
* Wolfram, Sybil, «Philosophical Logic, an Introduction», Routledge, London and New York, 1989
Teaching method
Lectures; analysis and discussion of texts
Evaluation method
The student can choose among the following possibilities: a) one or two oral reports, with prior information concerning the topic [weighting factor: 20%, each] + a written test; or, b) a paper [weighting factor: 40%] + a written test; or, c) only a written test.