Phenomenology and logic : the Boston College Lectures on mathematical logic and existentialism / edited by Philip J. McShane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Contributor:

Crowe, Frederick E.

Doran, Robert M., 1939-

McShane, Philip J.

Lonergan Research Institute.

Boston College.

Series:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1988. Works. v. 18.

Collected works of Bernard Lonergan ; v.18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Existentialism.

Phenomenology.

Theology--History--20th century.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Buffalo ; Toronto : Published for Lonergan Research Institute of Regis College, Toronto by University of Toronto Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collected here for the first time, this series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking both the transition from the faculty psychology still present in his work Insight to intentionality analysis and his initial differentiation of the existential level of consciousness. The lectures on logic deal with the general character of mathematical logic and its relation to truth, Scholasticism, and Aristotelian logic. Continuing Lonergan's long-standing interest in the foundations of thought, the lectures on existentialism offer a penetrating account of Husserl and his influence. They also deal with Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Marcel. They offer reflections on such topics as being oneself, dread, horizon, and the existential gap. Perhaps more dramatically than in any other work these papers reveal Lonergan's dual commitment to the rigor of scientific analysis (in the field of mathematical logic) and to the sensitivity of continental philosophies to existential issues.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""General Editors' Preface, ""; ""Editor's Introduction, ""; ""PART ONE: LECTURES ON MATHEMATICAL LOGIC""; ""1 The General Character of Mathematical Logic""; ""1 A Descriptive Approach""; ""2 An Analytic Approach""; ""2 The Development and Limits of Mathematical Logic""; ""1 The Pursuit of an Ideal""; ""2 Logical Formalization""; ""3 Principal Lines of Endeavor""; ""4 Godelian Limitations""; ""5 The Transcendence of Godelian Limitations""; ""6 Conclusion""; ""3 The Truth of a Mathematical-logical System""; ""1 The Truth of What?""; ""2 The General Character of Such Truth""

""3 What Is Meant by Truth'?""""4 A Mathematical-logical System Is by Postulation a Virtually Unconditioned""; ""5 Various Types of Mathematical-logical Systems Contain Fragments of Factual Truth""; ""4 The Foundations of Logic""; ""1 Traditional Logic""; ""2 The Changed Situation""; ""3 The Question of Foundations""; ""4 Symptoms of the Ambivalence of Technique""; ""5 Samples of Foundations of Logic""; ""5 Mathematical Logic and Scholasticism""; ""1 A New Factor in the Problem of Method""; ""2 Is Scholastic Thought an Axiomatic System?""; ""3 Mathematical Logic and Existence""

""4 Mathematical Logic and Substance""""5 Conclusion""; ""PART TWO: LONERGAN'S LECTURE OUTLINES""; ""6 The Lecture Notes on Mathematical Logic""; ""1 The General Character of Mathematical Logic""; ""2 The Development of Mathematical Logic""; ""3 The Truth of an ML System""; ""4 The Foundations of Logic""; ""5 Mathematical Logic and Scholasticism""; ""7 The Lecture Notes on Existentialism I: Orientation and Authors""; ""1 General Orientation""; ""2 On Being Oneself""; ""3 On Being Oneself: Philosophic Significance of the Theme""; ""4 Husserl: Later Period""; ""5 Critique of Husserl's Krisis""

""6 Phenomenology: Nature, Significance, Limitations""""7 M. Heidegger""; ""8 Single Page on 'Horizon'""; ""8 The Lecture Notes on Existentialism II: Subject and Horizon""; ""1 The Dilemma of the Subject""; ""2 Subject and Horizon""; ""3 Horizon and Dread""; ""4 Horizon and History""; ""5 Horizon as the Problem of Philosophy""; ""PART THREE: LECTURES ON EXISTENTIALISM""; ""9 General Orientation""; ""1 The Term 'Existentialism'""; ""2 Bibliography""; ""3 'Being a Man'""; ""4 Relation to Positivism and Idealism""; ""5 Time and History""; ""6 Existentialism and Scholasticism""

""7 Marcel and Jaspers""""10 On Being Oneself""; ""1 The Subject""; ""2 Patterns of Consciousness""; ""3 The Intellectual Pattern""; ""4 The Practical Pattern""; ""5 'Oneself'""; ""6 Withdrawal-and-Return""; ""7 Philosophic Significance of the Theme""; ""11 The Later Husserl""; ""1 Husserl's Last Work""; ""2 Is There a Crisis in Science?""; ""3 Fourth-century Athens""; ""4 The Renaissance""; ""5 The Criterion""; ""6 Five Criticisms of Modern Science""; ""7 Diagnosis""; ""8 Remedy""; ""9 Critique of Husserl's Krisis""; ""12 Phenomenology: Nature, Significance, Limitations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-374) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8880-1

1-281-99608-4

9786611996086

1-4426-7839-9

OCLC:

1078912599