Predicate Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic

Having served time at several major universities, Epstein now heads the Advanced Reasoning Forum. Here he introduces the most standard way that logicians parse the internal structure of propositions, seeking to find or suggest agreements about language, the world, and reasoning that can account in a uniform way for extensions of propositional logics in the richer language of predicate logic. He includes exercises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Richard L. Epstein received his B.A. summa cum laude at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, before an extensive career teaching mathematics and philosophy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He also owned and managed the Dog & Duck Coffee House. He is the author of the series of research texts THE SEMANTIC FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC as well as CRITICAL THINKING and FIVE WAYS OF SAYING THEREFORE". Currently he is head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum in Socorro, New Mexico."