Necessity lost. Modality and logic in early analytic philosophy. Volume I / Sanford Shieh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shieh, Sanford, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 441 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Modality and logic in early analytic philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Philosophers since Aristotle have traditionally held that impossibilities make up the nature of logic. Sanford Shieh investigates an important but underexplored break with this tradition: Frege and Russell questioned whether there really are such things as possibilities or necessities, and sought the foundations of logic elsewhere.

Contents:

The Modalities of Judgment

Amodalism

From Judgment to Amodalism

The Truth in Modalism

The Nature of Logic

From Idealism to Logicism

The Rejection of Modality

Completing the Rejection of Idealism

Logic and Implication

The Continuing Banishment of Modality

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780192568816

0192568817

9780191871146

0191871141

9780192568809

0192568809