If A, Then B - How the World Discovered Logic

Informationen zum Autor Michael Shenefelt has a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and began teaching logic after having worked previously as a newspaper reporter. He is also the author of The Questions of Moral Philosophy. Heidi White has a doctorate in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a master's degree in the history of ideas from the University of Texas at Dallas. She teaches philosophy and intellectual history and is a former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. Both authors teach Great Books at New York University's Liberal Studies Program. Klappentext This study privileges politics! economics! technology! and geography as fundamental to generating discoveries in logic - grounding the discipline's abstract principles in a compelling material narrative. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: What Is Logic?1. The Dawn of Logic2. Aristotle: Greatest of the Greek Logicians3. Aristotle's System: The Logic of Classification4. Chrysippus and the Stoics: A World of Interlocking Structures5. Logic Versus Antilogic: The Laws of Contradiction and Excluded Middle6. Logical Fanatics7. Will the Future Resemble the Past? Inductive Logic and Scientific Method8. Rhetorical Frauds and Sophistical Ploys: Ten Classic Tricks9. Symbolic Logic and the Digital Future10. Faith and the Limits of Logic: The Last Unanswered QuestionAppendix: Further FallaciesNotesBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Gary Shenefelt, Michael Shenefelt, Michael (Master Teacher Shenefelt, Michael White Shenefelt, Michael/ White Shenefelt, Shenefelt Michael, Heidi White, Heidi (Master Teacher White, White Heidi
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2013
• EAN: 9780231161046
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16104-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: logic, logic; philosophy