Reviews for Motivation, Behavior and Emotional Health: An Everyman's Interpretation

The average rating for Motivation, Behavior and Emotional Health: An Everyman's Interpretation based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-23 00:00:00 Lloyd Braswell I abandoned it after reading the first chapter as it's impossible to make sure you are learning if you read it on your own. There is one or two examples in every section and ten exercises without solutions anywhere. The last straw was trying to find why this is invalid: "A only if B. It is not the case that B. So it is not the case that A". It's obvious that if B was the case, it wouldn't mean that A was the case also. But now that B is not the case and A can only be the case if B, how can A be the case? My only guess is that this "only if" is some special term that I can't understand and allows for A to happen for a reason other than B.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-30 00:00:00 Peter Crawford The first time I read this book I found it seriously hard work, but coming back to it a year later, and a year further into my philosophy degree I found it helpful and reasonably clear. Perhaps there is no easy way into philosophy of logic, and this book reflects that. At times I felt the text could be shorter, but overall it is good. I also found the constant cross referencing to other parts of the book a little irritating, but not sure there is an easy alternative. The strength of the book is its explanation of key logical concepts - validity, truth, propositional logic, modal logic, and quantification - all set within in a framework of long exposition of the challenges of formalisation. A good book for an undergraduate philosophical logic course. As a comparison, it is more interesting, but harder work and less easy to follow, than Guttenplan's "The languages of logic".