The Evolution of Logic

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-74772-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

Reihe: The Evolution of Modern Philosophy

The Evolution of Logic is a selective, critical history of the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, W. D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cantor's paradise; 2. Die urwahrheiten; 3. Expeditions: which sets exist?; 4. The universe and everything; 5. Truth eludes proof; 6. Accomodating Cantor; 7. Or not; 8. The critique of pure reason; 9. The ways of the world; 10. The zoology of reality.

Über Autor(innen)

Hart, W. D.
W. D. Hart is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he chaired the philosophy department for 12 years. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, University College London, and the University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Engines of the Soul, now available in paperback (Cambridge, 2009), and the editor of The Philosophy of Mathematics and has published more than seventy articles and reviews in academic journals.