The Old New Logic
Title | The Old New Logic PDF eBook |
Author | David S. Oderberg |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780262651066 |
A diverse group of contributors reflect on the philosophical legacy of Fred Sommers and his efforts to revive and refashion traditional Aristotelian logic for a post-Fregean world.
The Logic of Information
Title | The Logic of Information PDF eBook |
Author | Luciano Floridi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2019-01-21 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0192570277 |
Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.
On Logic and the Theory of Science
Title | On Logic and the Theory of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Cavailles |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1913029417 |
A new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavaillès. In this short, dense essay, Jean Cavaillès evaluates philosophical efforts to determine the origin—logical or ontological—of scientific thought, arguing that, rather than seeking to found science in original intentional acts, a priori meanings, or foundational logical relations, any adequate theory must involve a history of the concept. Cavaillès insists on a historical epistemology that is conceptual rather than phenomenological, and a logic that is dialectical rather than transcendental. His famous call (cited by Foucault) to abandon "a philosophy of consciousness" for "a philosophy of the concept" was crucial in displacing the focus of philosophical enquiry from aprioristic foundations toward structural historical shifts in the conceptual fabric. This new translation of Cavaillès's final work, written in 1942 during his imprisonment for Resistance activities, presents an opportunity to reencounter an original and lucid thinker. Cavaillès's subtle adjudication between positivistic claims that science has no need of philosophy, and philosophers' obstinate disregard for actual scientific events, speaks to a dilemma that remains pertinent for us today. His affirmation of the authority of scientific thinking combined with his commitment to conceptual creation yields a radical defense of the freedom of thought and the possibility of the new.
The Logic of Natural Language
Title | The Logic of Natural Language PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Sommers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | 9780198247401 |
Old and New Logic; an Attempt to Elucidate for Ordinary Comprehension
Title | Old and New Logic; an Attempt to Elucidate for Ordinary Comprehension PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Brenan |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2024-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385142636 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Old and new logic; an attempt to elucidate how lord Bacon delivered the human mind from its 2000 years' enslavement under Aristotle
Title | Old and new logic; an attempt to elucidate how lord Bacon delivered the human mind from its 2000 years' enslavement under Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Brenan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Modal Homotopy Type Theory
Title | Modal Homotopy Type Theory PDF eBook |
Author | David Corfield |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-02-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192595032 |
"The old logic put thought in fetters, while the new logic gives it wings." For the past century, philosophers working in the tradition of Bertrand Russell - who promised to revolutionise philosophy by introducing the 'new logic' of Frege and Peano - have employed predicate logic as their formal language of choice. In this book, Dr David Corfield presents a comparable revolution with a newly emerging logic - modal homotopy type theory. Homotopy type theory has recently been developed as a new foundational language for mathematics, with a strong philosophical pedigree. Modal Homotopy Type Theory: The Prospect of a New Logic for Philosophy offers an introduction to this new language and its modal extension, illustrated through innovative applications of the calculus to language, metaphysics, and mathematics. The chapters build up to the full language in stages, right up to the application of modal homotopy type theory to current geometry. From a discussion of the distinction between objects and events, the intrinsic treatment of structure, the conception of modality as a form of general variation to the representation of constructions in modern geometry, we see how varied the applications of this powerful new language can be.