I like Toulmin et al.'s Introduction to Reasoning

Oct 12, 2008 5:38 PM

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Hmm, the closest I have to anything relevant would be Føllesdal, Walløe and Elsters Argumentationsteori, språk och vetenskapsfilosofi (Theory of Argumentation, Philosophy of Language and Science, roughly). No idea if it's in any non-nordic languages but it's very good.

Of course, all introductory coursebooks for analytical philosophy are useful in learning reasoning. Hospers Introduction to Analytical Philosophy and Bagginis The Philosophers Toolkit are very good starting points.

I'm sort of the reverse of you, formosan - my current study is mostly in basic philosophy and argumentation thereof and I try to teach myself mathematical logic at the side.

Oct 12, 2008 10:35 PM

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Kaiserpingvin said:

I'm sort of the reverse of you, formosan - my current study is mostly in basic philosophy and argumentation thereof and I try to teach myself mathematical logic at the side.

If you're at a university, you might find the computer science folks have a lot of interest in formal logic. There are formalisms like "partial recursive functions" and "Turing machines" that they use a lot that can be interesting for philosophers.

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formosan said:
If you're at a university, you might find the computer science folks have a lot of interest in formal logic. There are formalisms like "partial recursive functions" and "Turing machines" that they use a lot that can be interesting for philosophers.

I am; and that's actually one of my major areas of interest - I plan on taking a Masters in Cognitive Science. Sadly our Informatics department is apparently bad, while our Philosophy department is among the best in Europe (or so does a pretty big external investigation tell us).

You don't happen to know of any particularly good books on the subject? I'm always up for extracurricular independent studies.

Oct 17, 2008 6:46 PM

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formosan said:
If you're at a university, you might find the computer science folks have a lot of interest in formal logic. There are formalisms like "partial recursive functions" and "Turing machines" that they use a lot that can be interesting for philosophers.

I am; and that's actually one of my major areas of interest - I plan on taking a Masters in Cognitive Science. Sadly our Informatics department is apparently bad, while our Philosophy department is among the best in Europe (or so does a pretty big external investigation tell us).

You don't happen to know of any particularly good books on the subject? I'm always up for extracurricular independent studies.

The book with the easy-to-recall title is Geoffrey Hunter's Metalogic.

However that's not the best one, and Edit-
I just found the best one: It is:
Richard Epstein
Walter Carniellli
Computability: Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of Mathematics

However, look at books at publications written by this guy:
http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-kelly.php

formosanOct 18, 2008 6:11 AM

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