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An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic is an introductory textbook written by philosopher and logician Graham Priest on non-classical logics.

Two editions

The first edition of a 2001 is titled An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic, while the second edition, from 2008, is titled An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is (being a greatly improved and expanded version of the first edition). Both are published by Cambridge University Press.

Topics

1st edition

The table of contents include: modal logic, intuitionist logic, fuzzy logics, and more. It covers many different propositional logics, including that of classical logic.

2nd edition

The 2nd edition covers all topic from the first, and many more topics, including tense logic.

Audience and reception

The prerequisites for understanding the book are, for the most part, undergraduate courses in symbolic logic

According to J. Mackenzie, the book "deserves to become the standard textbook in its field."

References

  1. Hájek, Petr (2008). "Graham Priest. An introduction to non-classical logic: From If to Is. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2008, xxxii + 613 pp". Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 14 (4): 544–545. doi:10.1017/S1079898600001505. ISSN 1079-8986.
  2. Hájek, Petr (2006). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 12 (2): 294–295. ISSN 1079-8986.
  3. Shapiro, Stewart (2003). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic". The Review of Metaphysics. 56 (3): 670–672. ISSN 0034-6632.
  4. Yaqub, Aladdin M. (2010). "An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is ". Teaching Philosophy. 33 (4): 432–436. doi:10.5840/teachphil201033453. ISSN 0145-5788.
  5. Hájek, Petr (2008). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 14 (4): 544–545. ISSN 1079-8986.
  6. Review by, J.Mackenzie: https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:0981.03002
  7. Review of 2nd edition, by J.Mackenzie: https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:1148.03002
  8. Review of the German translation, by Albert A. Mullin: https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:1152.03001
  9. https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:0981.03002

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