The development of modern logic / edited by Leila Haaparanta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haaparanta, Leila, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--History.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 994 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the 20th century. In addition to a history of symbolic logic, the contributors also examine developments in the philosophy of logic and philosophical logic in modern times.

Contents:

Introduction / Leila Haaparanta

Late medieval logic / Tuomo Aho and Mikko Yrjonsuuri

Logic and philosophy of logic from humanism to Kant / Mirella Capozzi and Gino Roncaglia

The mathematical origins of nineteenth-century algebra of logic / Volker Peckhaus

Gottlob Frege and the interplay between logic and mathematics / Christian Thiel

The logic question during the first half of the nineteenth century / Risto Vilkko

The relations between logic and philosophy, 1874-1931 / Leila Haaparanta

A century of judgment and inference, 1837-1936 : some strands in the development of logic / Goran Sundholm

The development of mathematical logic from Russell to Tarski, 1900-1935 / Paolo Mancosu, Richard Zach, and Calixto Badesa

Set theory, model theory, and computability theory / Wilfrid Hodges

Proof theory of classical and intuitionistic logic / Jan von Plato

Modal logic from Kant to possible worlds semantics / Tapio Korte, Ari Maunu, and Tuomo Aho

Conditionals and possible worlds : on C.S. Peirce's conception of conditionals and modalities / Risto Hilpinen

Logic and semantics in the twentieth century / Gabriel Sandu and Tuomo Aho

The philosophy of alternative logics / Andrew Aberdein and Stephen Read

Philosophy of inductive logic : the Bayesian perspective / Sandy Zabell

Logic and linguistics in the twentieth century / Alessandro Lenci and Gabriel Sandu

Logic and artificial intelligence / Richmond H. Thomason

Indian logic / J.N. Mohanty ... [et al.].

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-33642-8

9786612336423

0-19-972272-2

OCLC:

922954551