Propositional Logics: The Semantic Foundations of Logic

For beginning and advanced students, well-known logician Epstein presents modern logic, unifying many different logics within a common spectrum of semantic analysis. He begins with concrete examples and works back to abstraction to demonstrate a structural and conceptual unity based on common assumptions about the relation of language, reasoning, and the world. His text can be used for a graduate or undergraduate course, or as a basis for thesis research. He does not include a bibliography, nor note the date of the first edition. 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."