Art of Philosophy - A Selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's Works

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic. Perzanowski began as a logician, his early works being on modal logic, then gradually shifted his interest to "logical philosophy", meaning not so much philosophy of logic as philosophy informed by logic. Perzanowski was a rare breed of analytical philosopher who thought that a philosophical "theory of everything" was worthwhile. In this systematic spirit, he began with method. He presented his "method of total analysis and synthesis" quite simply: reduce the object of research to its simplest possible constituents, and then combine them in some way. Better still, combine them in every possible way, thereby producing a space of possibilities analogous to (and in certain cases identical with) the logical space. Thus, analysis and synthesis differ from a trivial disassembly and reassembly.

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• Authors: Jerzy Perzanowski, Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertynski
• Assisted by: Janus Sytnik-Czetwertynski (Editor), Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertynski (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2011
• EAN: 9783110321630
• ISBN: 978-3-11-032163-0
• No. of pages: 225
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: Categories; Categories; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day