Logical Philosophy
Subtitle: A Compendium
Publisher: Avi Sion
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Description: Logical Philosophy brings together five works by Avi Sion published in 2002-06, namely: Phenomenology (2003), Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), Meditations (2006), Ruminations (2005), and Buddhist Illogic (2002). These works together define what may be termed ‘Logical Philosophy’, i.e. philosophical discourse distinguished by its steadfast reliance on inductive and deductive logic to resolve epistemological and ontological issues. This collection does not include work done on The Logic of Causation in the same period (published in 2003, 2005). (First published 2013.)
Table of contents: title: PHENOMENOLOGY	13; title: 1.	What, Why and How	18; title: 2.	Organizing Principles	24; title: 3.	Experiences and Abstractions	36; title: 4.	Conceptualization	51; title: 5.	The Self	68; title: 6.	Additional Topics	83; title: 7.	The Active Role of Logic	99; title: 8.	Epistemological Issues in Mathematics	112; title: 9.	Theology Without Prejudice	122; title: 10.	Illustrations	132; title: Appendices and References	135; title: VOLITION  AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS	143; title: 1.	Basic Causal Relations	150; title: 2.	Interactions between Volition and Causation	157; title: 3.	Further Analysis of Volition	165; title: 4.	Consciousness and Responsibility	172; title: 5.	Influence and Freedom	180; title: 6.	Further Analysis of Influence	187; title: 7.	The Workings of Volition	195; title: 8.	Volition and the Special Sciences	206; title: 9.	Will, Velleity and Whim	214; title: 10.	Affections and Appetites	221; title: 11.	Complications of Influence	229; title: 12.	Urges and Impulses	237; title: 13.	The Quasi-Purposive in Nature	248; title: 14.	Concepts of Evolution	254; title: 15.	More about Evolution	263; title: 16.	The Self	270; title: 17.	Some Topics in Deontology	281; title: 18.	More Topics in Deontology	289; title: Appendices and References	296; title: MEDITATIONS	301; title: 1.	Some Theoretical Considerations	305; title: 2.	Understanding The Self	322; title: 3.	Some Behavioral Disciplines	339; title: 4.	Some Sitting Meditations	350; title: RUMINATIONS	373; title: 1.	About the Laws of Thought	380; title: 2.	About Induction	389; title: 3.	About Words	404; title: 4.	About Formal Logic	413; title: 5.	About Paradoxes	426; title: 6.	About “Modern Logic”	440; title: 7.	About Cognitive Development	448; title: 8.	About Causal Logic	456; title: 9.	About Negation	466; title: 10.	Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation	479; title: 11.	Islamic Logic	485; title: 12.	Logical Aspects of Foucault’s Archeology	492; title: 13.	Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault	499; title: 14.	Bolzano’s Semantics Concepts	504; title: BUDDHIST ILLOGIC	509; title: Foreword	513; title: 1.	The tetralemma	515; title: 2.	Neither real nor unreal	517; title: 3.	Nagarjuna’s use of dilemma	520; title: 4.	The subject-predicate relation	522; title: 5.	Percepts and concepts	525; title: 6.	Motion and rest	532; title: 7.	Causality	539; title: 8.	Co-dependence	545; title: 9.	Karmic law	550; title: 10.	God and creation	552; title: 11.	Self or soul	558; title: 12.	Self-knowledge	562; title: Afterword: Not ‘empty logic’, but empty of logic	565; title: Appendices	568