'What Grayling's book aims to introduce its readers to is nothing less than ... the most distinctive preoccupation of twentieth-century English-speaking philosophy: its belief in the central importance of philosophical logic ... In supplying a rationalised account of the main twists and turns taken by this dominant trend ... Grayling has succeeded admirably.' Crispin Wright, Times Higher Education Supplement An Introduction to Philosophical Logic is a popular mainstay among students taking courses in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language. Covering some of the most central topics in philosophy —- the proposition, theories of truth, existence, meaning and reference, realism and anti-realism —- it aims to be an accessible guide to philosophical logic. This new edition keeps the same successful format, with each chapter providing a self-contained introduction to the topic it discusses, rewritten to include updated information. The author has also revised his concluding chapter and completely updated the bibliography. A. C. Grayling The author is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. His other publications include Philosophy 2 (1998), Moral Values (1998), Russell (1996), Philosophy 1 (1995), Wittgenstein (1988), Berkeley: The Central Arguments (1986), and The Refutation of Scepticism (1985).
Author
Anthony Clifford "A. C." Grayling is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is a director and contributor at Prospect Magazine, as well as a Vice President of the British Humanist Association. His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophical logic. He has described himself as "a man of the left" and is associated in Britain with the new atheism movement, and is sometimes described as the 'Fifth Horseman of New Atheism'. He appears in the British media discussing philosophy.
