Old New Logic Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers

Name: Old New Logic Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers
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ISBN: 9780262151139

ISBN-10: 0262151138

ISBN-13: 9780262151139

Edition: 2005

Authors: David S. Oderberg, P. F. Strawson

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Over the course of a career that has spanned more than fifty years, the philosopher Fred Sommers has taken on the monumental task of reviving the development of Aristotelian (syllogistic) logic after it was supplanted by the predicate logic of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The enormousness of Sommers's undertaking can be gauged by the fact that most philosophers had come to believe -- as David S. Oderberg writes in his preface -- that "Aristotelian logic was good but is now as good as dead." A revival of traditional syllogistic logic would involve not only its restatement but its refashioning into a system that could rival the elegance and deductive power of predicate logic. Building…

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List price: $16.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.17" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time, Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, and numerous articles in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and related subjects.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Forward




Intellectual Autobiography




Trees, Terms, and Truth: The Philosophy of Fred Sommers




Syntax and Ontology: Reflections on Three Logical Systems




Exploring Boundary Conditions on the Structure of Knowledge: Some Nonobvious Influences of Philosophy on Psychology




General Terms, Anaphora, and Rigid Designation




The Syntax and Semantics of English Prepositional Phrases




Modeling Anaphora in TFL




An Elementary Term Logic for Physically Realizable Models of Information




Sommer's Cancellation Technique and the Method of Resolution




Predicate Logic and Bare Particulars




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Index