Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic

Zusammenfassung Provides detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the range of modal logic. This title contains the scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer various questions in the field of logic. It is intended for those interested in the development of logic! including researchers! graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic.

List of contents

1. "Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition" by John Marenbon
2. "Beginning of Scholastic Logic before Abelard" by Yukio Iwakuma
3. "The Logic of Abelard and His Contemporaries" by Ian Wilks
4. "The Development of Supposition Theory in the Later 12th and Early 13th Centuries" by Terence Parsons
5. "Assimilation of Aristotelian and Arabic Logic up to the Later 13th Century" by Henrik Lagerlund
6. "Logic and Theories of Meaning in the Late 13th and Early 14th Century Including the Modistae" by Ria van der Lecq
7. "The Nominalist Semantics of William Ockham and John Buridan" by Gyula Klima
8. "Logic in the 14th Century after Ockham" by Catarina Dutilh-Novaes
9. "Treatments of Modal and Other 'Opaque' Contexts in Mediaeval Logic" by Simo Knuuttila
10. "Treatments of the Paradoxes of Self-reference" by Mikko Yrjonsuuri
11. "Developments in the 15th and 16th Centuries" by Jennifer Ashworth
12. "Relational Logic of Juan Caramuel" by Petr Dvorak
13. "Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity" by Russell Wahl

Product details

• Authors: Dov M. Gabbay, Dov M. (King''''s College London Gabbay, Dov M. (King''''s College London) Woods Gabbay, Dov M. Woods Gabbay
• Assisted by: Dov M. Gabbay (Editor), Dov M. (King's College London Gabbay (Editor), John Woods (Editor), John (University of British Columbia Woods (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2008
• EAN: 9780444516251
• ISBN: 978-0-444-51625-1
• No. of pages: 728
• Series: Handbook of the History of Logic; Handbook of the History of Log; Handbook of the History of Logic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works