Everyday academic practice shows that the students' interest in questions that go beyond a mere introduction to logic as such remains undiminished … How, if anything, are logic, psychology and language related? Philosophy of logic is a fundamental part of philosophical study, and one which is increasingly recognized as being immensely important in relation to many issues in metaphysics, metametaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of language. Philosophical logic refers to those areas of philosophy in which recognized methods of logic have traditionally been used to solve or advance the discussion of philosophical problems. 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This textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to topics including the objectivity of logical inference rules and its relevance in discussions of epistemological relativism, the revived interest in logical pluralism, the question of logic's metaphysical neutrality, and the demarcation between logic and mathematics. An excellent survey of the main discussions in analytic philosophy, covering truth, meaning, necessity, and the debate between realism and anti-realism. His research focuses on logic and its philosophy. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. An Introduction to Philosophical Logic 2nd Ed. To quote the introduction, "...This has the concomitant virtue of familiarizing the neomath with who said what, why, and where." 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