The Evolution of Logic (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy)

Cambridge Core - Logic - The Evolution of Logic - by W. D. Hart. Philosophy, Logic, History of Philosophy; Series: The Evolution of Modern Philosophy.
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Log in Register Recommend to librarian. This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions.

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In its unusually wide range, A. It also advances its own distinctive and compelling conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters.

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Moore explores how metaphysics can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new. The Evolution of Logic W. Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic.

These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes, like Russell's.

The Evolution of Logic

This ferment generated excellent philosophy and mathematics by excellent philosophers and mathematicians up to World War II. This book provides a selective, critical history of the collaboration between logic and philosophy during this period. After World War II, mathematical logic became a recognized subdiscipline in mathematics departments, and consequently but unfortunately philosophers have lost touch with its monuments.

This book aims to make four of them consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy. This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to Wittgenstein.

He shows how the history of the philosophy of language in the modern period is marked by a dichotomy between formal and pragmatic perspectives on language and that modern philosophy has not been able to integrate these two aspects of human language.

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Language as a human activity and language as a syntactic and semantic system remain distinct and competing focal points, although the interplay between these points of view has driven the development of the philosophy of language. Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence.

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The book begins with the movement called Cambridge Platonism, which formed a bridge between the ancient and medieval worlds and early modern philosophy. While the book provides a general overview of different movements in philosophy, it also offers a detailed exposition and reflection on key arguments. The scope is broad, from Descartes to contemporary feminist philosophy of religion.

Written with clarity and verve, this is a book that will appeal to professionals and students in the philosophy of religion, religious studies, and the history of ideas, as well as informed lay readers. Is life different from the non-living?


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And how, in that case, does biology as the study of living things differ from other sciences? These questions are traced through an exploration of episodes in the history of biology and philosophy. The book begins with Aristotle, then moves on to Descartes, comparing his position with that of Harvey. In the eighteenth century the authors consider Buffon and Kant. University Press Scholarship Online.

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Publications Pages Publications Pages. Search my Subject Specializations: Classical, Early, and Medieval Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval World History: Civil War American History: Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. More This book presents a history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the 20th century.

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