Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski Selected Essays

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War. I recently taught at an American university on the his­ tory of philosophy from Balzano to Husserl. The course title had to come...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simons, Peter M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Central Europe in the history of philosophy
  • 2. Bolzano, Tarski, and the limits of logic
  • 3. Brentano’s reform of logic
  • 4. The formalization of Husserl’s theory of wholes and parts
  • 5. Frege’s theory of real numbers
  • 6. The Anglo-Austrian Analytic Axis
  • 7. On what there isn’t: the Meinong-Russell dispute
  • 8. ?ukasiewicz, Meinong, and many-valued logic
  • 9. On understanding Le?niewski
  • 10. A Brentanian basis for Lesniewskian logic
  • 11. Le?niewski’s logic and its relations to classical and free logics
  • 12. A semantics for Ontology
  • 13. The old problem of complex and fact
  • 14. Tractatus-Mereologico-Philosophicus? A Brentanian look at Wittgenstein, and a moral
  • 15. Wittgenstein, Schlick and the a priori
  • 16. Categories and ways of being
  • Index of Persons
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Cities