Significance of the New Logic

Informationen zum Autor Walter Carnielli is Professor of Philosophy of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics at the State University of Campinas. His publications include books on computability theory, modal logics, paraconsistent logics and combinations of logics. Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. She is co-editor of Quine and His Place in History (2015), and her work on Quine, logic, and ontology has appeared in Synthese and The Monist. William Pickering is a translator and editor of academic works in the areas of logic and linguistics, and holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the State University of Campinas. He has lectured and published on the applications of complex systems theory in linguistics. Klappentext First full English translation of the Portuguese-language works of W. V. Quine, one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers. Zusammenfassung Provides philosophers! logicians! and historians with a full translation of Quine's 1942 Portuguese language book! making this crucial stage of his intellectual development available to English speakers. It includes an accompanying historical-philosophical essay setting this work in context and identifying its importance for semantics and ontology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' introduction Walter Carnielli, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and William Pickering; W. V. O. Quine's philosophical development in the 1930s and 1940s Frederique Janssen-Lauret; The Significance of the New Logic W. V. O. Quine; Appendix. The United States and the revival of logic W. V. O. Quine.

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• Authors: Willard Van Orman Quine, QUINE W.V.
• Assisted by: Walter Carnielli (Editor), Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Editor), William Pickering (Editor), Walter Carnielli (Translation), Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Translation), William Pickering (Translation), Carnielli Walter (Editor and translation), Janssen-Lauret Frederique (Editor and translation), Pickering William (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107179028
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17902-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism