Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780978055202)

Peter Schotch is currently the Munro Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has published widely on many topics in philosophical logic including applications of logic in moral philosophy and epistemology. He is also regarded as one of the founders of the preservationist school of paraconsistent logic, which takes as its task the construction of a theory of how to reason from inconsistent data. In a recent review of the book, Professor Judith Pelham says: Peter Schotch's book Introduction to Logic and its Philosophy sounds a new chord amidst the cacophony of introductory logic texts. The central role of inference rules and the relation of "following from" receive great emphasis. This is plain in the presentation: from the ordering of the introductory chapters, to the style of completeness proof undertaken in the metatheory section. The notion of an inference rule is also of central importance in the chapter devoted to philosophy of logic. I hasten to add that apart from that chapter (Chapter 6) issues in the philosophy of logic are liberally sprinkled throughout the book. The discussion is forceful and engaging, and raises questions that will, in my experience, resonate with students at the introductory and more advanced levels alike. Judith Pelham Associate Professor of Philosophy York University.