A Boole Anthology: Recent and Classical Studies in the Logic of George Boole / Edition 1

by James Gasser

Overview

Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic and The Laws of Thought. The influence of the Boolean school on the development of logic, always recognised but long underestimated, has recently become a major research topic. This collection is the first anthology of works on Boole. It contains two works published in 1865, the year of Boole's death, but never reprinted, as well as several classic studies of recent decades and ten original contributions appearing here for the first time. From the programme of the English Algebraic School to Boole's use of operator methods, from the problem of interpretability to that of psychologism, a full range of issues is covered. The Boole Anthology is indispensable to Boole studies and will remain so for years to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792363804
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/2000
Series:	Synthese Library , #291
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	349
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

The Late George Boole, LL.D., D.C.L. (1865).- Remarks on Professor Boole’s Mathematical Theory of the Laws of Thought (1865).- The Influence of Boole’s Search for a Universal Method in Analysis on the Creation of His Logic (1977).- Boole’s Algebra Isn’t Boolean Algebra (1981).- Review of Boole, Studies in Logic and Probability, and of ‘Celebration of the Centenary of The Laws of Thought’ (1959).- A Reassessment of George Boole’s Theory of Logic (1977).- Boole’s Criteria for Validity and Invalidity (1980).- Algebraical Logic: Leibniz and Boole.- Logic Versus Algebra: English Debates and Boole’s Mediation.- The Mathematical Background of George Boole’s Mathematical Analysis of Logic.- On Boole’s Algebraic Logic after The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.- The Influence of Aristotelian Logic on Boole’s Philosophy of Logic: the Reduction of Hypotheticals to Categoricals.- The Conceptualization of Time in Boole’s Algebraic Logic.- George Boole and the Science of Logic.- Was George Boole Really the ‘Father’ of Modern Logic?.- Hugh MacColl and George Boole on Hypotheticals.- Psychologism in Logic: Some Similarities between Boole and Frege.- Contributors.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.