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Forms of Thought E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)

Forms of Thought By E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)

Forms of Thought by E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)


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Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and distinguish between what is, might, or must be the case; studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. The book will be of interest to students of epistemology and metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and language.

Forms of Thought Summary

Forms of Thought: A Study in Philosophical Logic by E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)

Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional thoughts, about what would or might be the case if something else were the case. Even the simplest thoughts are structured like sentences, containing referential and predicative elements, and studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. This clear and accessible book investigates the forms of thought, drawing out and focusing on the central logical notions of reference, predication, identity, modality and conditionality. It will be useful to students and other interested readers in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and philosophical logic.

Forms of Thought Reviews

'Lowe aims to explicate the logical structure of thoughts via an examination of the sentences in which they are expressed ... the argumentation and explanations are clear, straightforward ... Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.' S. P. Schwartz, Choice

About E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)

E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His publications include Subjects of Experience (Cambridge, 1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge, 2000), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), Personal Agency (2008) and More Kinds of Being (2009). He is a General Editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Reference and Predication: 2. Individuation, reference, and sortal terms; 3. Dispositional versus occurrent predication; 4. Predication and categories; Part II. Identity: 5. What is a criterion of identity?; 6. Identity conditions and their grounds; Part III. Modality: 7. Identity, vagueness, and modality; 8. Necessity, essence, and possible worlds; Part IV. Conditionality: 9. The truth about counterfactuals; 10. Conditionals and conditional probability; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781107540439
9781107540439
1107540437
Forms of Thought: A Study in Philosophical Logic by E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-07-09
226
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