Product Description

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point, and assuming no previous knowledge of logic, Wilfrid Hodges takes the reader through the whole gamut of logical expressions in a simple and lively way. Readers who are more mathematically adventurous will find optional sections introducing rather more challenging material. 'A lively and stimulating book' Philosophy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5271 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'A lively and stimulating book' Philosophy

About the Author
Wilfrid Hodges is a Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He has held visiting appointments in the US.

Customer Reviews

Very good book
The author seems to have been a classicist, theologian, philosopher and mathematician at various stages in his career. He has held a chair in mathematics and has written books on many subjects including history and psychology and has given lectures on music too.

This book is a paperback and has forty four chapters and is 292 pages long. It teaches various aspects of logic and makes use of symbols and diagrams.

This is not for expert logicians but is somewhat stronger than many critical thinking books. Would probably suit mathematics and philosophy students rather than general readers.

As a beginner...
...I had to start somewhere. There are plenty of examples throughout and exercises to do. More importantly the majority of the answers are in the back of the book for those of us who are more perplexed.

Admittingly some of the methods seem perhaps a bit dated but this is still a good book to have to start you off. Just enough to raise your game but easy enough for beginners to get a grasp of. Of course if you do get into logic properly though this only really scratches the surface.

One for the devoted fans and hard-working students of logic
This old-fashioned book is a more formal look at Logic, and its transcription into symbols and constituents in order to evaluate the truth and validity of paragraphs. Things get pretty messy towards the end, so avoid this if you're going for a lateral thinking type approach to the area.
This is a book to inform and educate, and does so very clearly, with simple excercises to do throughout (answers in the back), and plenty of info is given in each chapter - there's no dull waffle, all vital stuff for the next chapters.

Good luck with this taxing but effective look into the study of Logic.