Other Logics
Subtitle: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789004270183
Description: This book challenges the widespread idea of formal logic as inherently monolithic, universal, and ahistorical. Written by both leading and up-and-coming scholars, and edited by Admir Skodo, 'Other Logics' offers a wide variety of historical and philosophical alternatives to this idea, all arguing that logic is a historical, concrete, and multi-dimensional phenomenon. To name a few examples, Frank Ankersmit lays down a representationalist logic, Alessandra Tanesini forcefully argues for the possibility of logical aliens, Christopher Watkin analyzes how leading contemporary French philosophers view the idea of logic, and Aaron Wendland unearths Heidegger's critique of formal logic. In this book readers will find provocative interventions in a highly contested field in contemporary philosophy.