Leśniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (eBook)

Rafal Urbaniak (Autor)

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2013
XIII, 229 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-00482-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw  Le?niewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author's nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing Le?niewski's core philosophical views and evaluating the formulations that were to have such a profound influence on the evolution of mathematical logic.  

One of the undisputed leaders of the cohort of brilliant logicians that congregated in Poland in the early twentieth century, Le?niewski was a guide and mentor to a generation of celebrated analytical philosophers (Alfred Tarski was his PhD student). His primary achievement was a system of foundational mathematical logic intended as an alternative to the Principia Mathematica of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Its three strands-'protothetic', 'ontology', and 'mereology', are detailed in discrete sections of this volume, alongside a wealth other chapters grouped to provide the fullest possible coverage of Le?niewski's academic output.

With material on his early philosophical views, his contributions to set theory and his work on nominalism and higher-order quantification, this book offers a uniquely expansive critical commentary on one of analytical philosophy's great pioneers.?

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Leśniewski's early philosophical views.- Chapter 3. Leśniewski's Protothetic.-  Chapter 4. Leśniewski's Ontology.- Chapter 5. Leśniewski's Mereology.- Chapter 6. Leśniewski and definitions.- Chapter 7. Sets revisited.- Chapter 8. Nominalism and higher-order quantification. ​

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Logic
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Logic
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 229 p. 3 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Foundations of mathematics • History of Logic • Lesniewski's life and philosophical development • Lesniewski's Mereology • Lesniewski's Ontology • Lesniewski's Protothetic • Nelson-Grelling paradox • Semantic c • Semantic categories • Semantic categories and the language of Protothetic • Stanislaw Lesniewski
• ISBN-10: 3-319-00482-4 / 3319004824
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-00482-2 / 9783319004822