The Rise of Modern Logic
Subtitle: From Leibniz to Frege
Contributors: Woods, John
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9780080532875
Subjects: Logic
Description: With the publication of the present volume, the Handbook of the History of Logic turns its attention to the rise of modern logic. The period covered is 1685-1900, with this volume carving out the territory from Leibniz to Frege. What is striking about this period is the earliness and persistence of what could be called 'the mathematical turn in logic'. Virtually every working logician is aware that, after a centuries-long run, the logic that originated in antiquity came to be displaced by a new approach with a dominantly mathematical character. It is, however, a substantial error to suppose th.
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Table of contents: title: Front Cover; The Rise of Modern Logic: From Leibniz to Frege; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Leibniz's Logic; Chapter 2. Kant: From General to Transcendental Logic; Chapter 3. Hegel's Logic; Chapter 4. Bolzano as Logician; Chapter 5. Husserl's Logic; Chapter 6. Algebraical Logic 1685-1900; Chapter 7. The Algebra of Logic; Chapter 8. The Mathematical Turns in Logic; Chapter 9. Schröder's Logic; Chapter 10. Peirce's Logic; Chapter 11. Frege's Logic; Index.