Logic for Philosophy is an introduction to logic for students of contemporary philosophy It is suitable both for advanced undergraduates & for beginning graduate students in philosophy It covers (i) basic approaches to logic including proof theory & especially model theory (ii) extensions of standard logic that are important in philosophy & (iii) some elementary philosophy of logic It emphasizes breadth rather than depth For example it discusses modal logic & counterfactuals but does not prove the central metalogical results for predicate logic (completeness undecidability etc) Its goal is to introduce students to the logic they need to know in order to read contemporary philosophical work It is very user-friendly for students without an extensive background in mathematics In short this book gives you the understanding of logic that you need to do philosophy