Warren Goldfarb is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, and Professor of Philosophy, at Harvard University.
Warren Goldfarb's long-awaited Deductive Logic is an unusually
perspicuous and effective logic textbook. It succeeds in achieving
great precision without seeming pedantic and great depth without
compromising accessibility. One main advantage of this book
relative to its competitors is the lucidity with which it explains,
in ways that even beginners can fully appreciate, the rapport
between semantic and syntactic captures of logical consequence.
Another marked advantage is the book's emphasis on deduction and
its insistence on motivating the various clauses of the rules of
deduction by showing, for example, what would ensue had these
clauses been flouted. In this, Deductive Logic fills a real lacuna
in logic-instruction and avoids the common pedagogical pitfalls of
instruction via the tree method, where students find it rather
mysterious why and how the method really works. The book is written
in a clear and lively style and contains numerous exercises of
varying degrees of difficulty. It is ideally suited for students in
philosophy and computer science. --Ori Simchen, University of
British Columbia
This is the finest introduction to logic available. --John Symons,
University of Texas, El Paso
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