Philosophy: logic

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "e;L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui"e;, Geneva, 3-5 June 1988.

Foundational questions in logic, mathematics, computer science and physics are constant sources of epistemological debate in contemporary philosophy.

ments be thrown to the wind - in light of the fact that careful, precise, step-by-step deductive arguments will be presented below for each and every proposition that might be cavalierly regarded prima facie implausible.

Scholars from all the continents have written articles to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Jan Srzednicki, a thinker still at the height of his powers.

At the outset of the research leading to this book I held a position somewhere close to 'the standard Copenhagen interpretation' of QM.

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973.

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse.

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition.

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J.

Among the extraordinary Polish philosophers of the past one hundred years, Zygmunt Zawirski deserves to be given particular attention for his fusion of analytic and historical scholarship.

I suppose Joseph Agassi's best and dearest self-description, his cher- ished wish, is to practice what his 1988 book promises: The Gentle Art of Philosophical Polemics.

In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

Gottlob Frege's Uber Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy.

Non-Classical Logics and their Applications to Fuzzy Subsets is the first major work devoted to a careful study of various relations between non-classical logics and fuzzy sets.

That philosophical themes could be studied in an exact manner by logical meanS was a delightful discovery to make.

When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of and interest in my pursuits.

The purpose of this brief introduction is to describe the origin of the papers here presented and to acknowledge the help of some of the many individuals who were involved in the preparation of this volume.

We respect Herbert A.

During the academic years 1972-1973 and 1973-1974, an intensive sem- inar on the foundations of quantum mechanics met at Stanford on a regular basis.

In these essays toward a political philosophy we shall be con- cerned with fundamentals.

The present work constitutes an effort to approach the subject of symbol- ic logic at the elementary to intermediate level in a novel way.

The aim of this monograph is to present some of the basic ideas and results in pure combinatory logic and their applications to some topics in proof theory, and also to present some work of my own.

The present book is concerned with the nature of philosophy and with the scope of philosophical interest.

It is common to consider an area of science as a system of real or sup- posed truths which not only continuously extends itself, but also needs periodical revision and therefore tests the inventive capacity of each generation of scholars anew.

The essays in this volume are based on addresses presented during a colloquium on free logic, modal logic and related areas held at the University of California at Irvine, in May of 1968.

Many philosophers have considered logical reasoning as an inborn ability of mankind and as a distinctive feature in the human mind; but we all know that the distribution of this capacity, or at any rate its development, is very unequal.

This book presents the classic relative consistency proofs in set theory that are obtained by the device of 'inner models'.

The field of modern logic is too extensive to be worked through by open- cast mining.

In 1968 Jean van Heijenoort published an edition of Herbrand's collected logic papers (Herbrand 1968).

At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi- cation of a transition to something new, in order to be critically open for all attempts at "e;another beginning.

The need for another study on the doctrine of analogy in the writings ofSt Thomas may not be obvious, since a complete bibliography in this area would doubtless assume depressing proportions.

With this issue we initiate the policy of expanding the scope of Tulane Studies in Philosophy to include, in addition to the work of members of the department, contributions from philosophers who have earned advanced degrees from Tulane and who are now teaching in other colleges and universities.

It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems.

The aim of this monograph is to expound the conceptions of temporalized modality at issue in various Arabic logical texts.

The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con- ditional propositions and syllogisms.

This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con- gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences.

Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "e;never from the begin- ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and studies oflogic flourished more abun- dantly than the period-in which we live.

Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-Ianguage hand- books of logie and numerous monographs on topieal discoveries in the foundations of mathematies.