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About the Author
Alex Oliver read philosophy at Cambridge and Yale. After a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he joined the Faculty of Philosophy where he is now a Professor. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and the Mind Association's Senior Research Fellowship for work in logic. Timothy Smiley studied logic and philosophy at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1948, before reading mathematics at Cambridge. After service in the RAF and the Air Ministry he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but opted to take up a Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge. He became Senior Tutor of his College and was a University Lecturer in Philosophy before being elected as Knightbridge Professor in 1980.
Reviews
In their clear and combative style, they introduce the relevant notions and offer rebuttals to arguments that would oppose their own positions ... Oliver and Smiley's book is full of careful and precise developments, as well as witty arguments... provides a good survey of plural logic and the most important issues connected to it. * David A. Nicolas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
A veritable tour de force. * Lloyd Humberstone, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *
Throughout the book the exposition is clear; the arguments cogent; the formalism as transparent as can be. Proofs are relegated to appendices. This is a rewarding book. It deserves study in any course in philosophical or mathematical logic, and a place in every logician's library. * Louis F Goble, zbmath *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198744382
Author Alex Oliver
Format Paperback
Page Count 398
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm * 22mm