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Simple Formal Logic: With Common-Sense Symbolic Techniques
Author(s): Arnold vander Nat (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 16 Dec. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415997453
- ISBN-13: 9780415997454
Book Description
Perfect for students with no background in logic or philosophy, Simple Formal Logic provides a full system of logic adequate to handle everyday and philosophical reasoning. By keeping out artificial techniques that aren’t natural to our everyday thinking process, Simple Formal Logic trains students to think through formal logical arguments for themselves, ingraining in them the habits of sound reasoning.
Simple Formal Logic features:
- a companion website with abundant exercise worksheets, study supplements (including flashcards for symbolizations and for deduction rules), and instructor’s manual
- two levels of exercises for beginning and more advanced students
- a glossary of terms, abbreviations and symbols.
This book arose out of a popular course that the author has taught to all types of undergraduate students at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches formal logic without the artificial methods–methods that often seek to solve farfetched logical problems without any connection to everyday and philosophical argumentation. The result is a book that teaches easy and more intuitive ways of grappling with formal logic–and is intended as a rigorous yet easy-to-follow first course in logical thinking for philosophy majors and non-philosophy majors alike.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Arnold vander Nat’s Simple Formal Logic is simply better than its closest competitors at presenting material for an undergraduate audience, new to the subject. Its greatest merit is that it explains complex and challenging material in layman’s terms and then moves on to more technical language. This approach makes it both highly accessible and engaging. It’s one of the few logic textbooks that I really liked reading.’ – Chunghyoung Lee, California State University, Fresno, USA
‘I was floored by this fabulous logic text and by the talents of its author! I tremendously enjoyed reading it, and can’t wait until I can adopt it as my class text.’ – Michael Latzer, Gannon University, USA
About the Author
Arnold vander Nat is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He has taught courses at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels in logic, epistemology, and early modern philosophy.
