Author(s): Boole, George; Gasser, James; Boole, George (ed.)
Series: Synthese library 291
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 362
City: London, Dordrecht
Tags: Boole, George, -- 1815-1864.;Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.;Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Content: Preface. Acknowledgements. Classical Studies. 1. Background. The Late George Boole, LL.D., D.C.L. (1865)
S. Neil. Remarks on Professor Boole's Mathematical Theory of the Laws of Thought (1865)
G.P. Young. 2. Mathematical Aspects. The Influence of Boole's Search for a Universal Methods in Analysis on the Creation of His Logic
L.M. Laita. Boole's Algebra Isn't Boolean Algebra (1981)
T. Hailperin. 3. Philosophical Aspects. Review of Boole, Studies in Logic and Probability, and of `Celebration of the Centenary of The Laws of Thought' (1959)
M. Dummett. A Reassessment of George Boole's Theory of Logic (1977)
J.W. Van Evra. Boole's Criteria for Validity and Invalidity (1980)
J. Corcoran, S. Wood. Recent Studies. 1. Background. Algebraical Logic: Leibniz and Boole
T. Hailperin. Logic versus Algebra: English Debates and Boole's Mediation
M.-J. Durand-Richard. 2. Mathematical Aspects. The Mathematical Background of George Boole's Mathematical Analysis of Logic
M. Panteki. On Boole's Algebraic Logic after The Mathematical Analysis of Logic
I. Grattan-Guinness. 3. Philosophical Aspects. The Influence of Aristotelian Logic on Boole's Philosophy of Logic: the Reduction of Hypotheticals to Categoricals
S. Nambiar. The Conceptualization of Time in Boole's Algebraic Logic
B. Godart-Wendling. George Boole and the Science of Logic
G. Bornet. 4. Consequences. Was George Boole Really the `Father' of Modern Logic? V. Peckhaus. Hugh MacColl and George Boole on Hypotheticals
S. Rahman. Psychologism in Logic: Some Similarities between Boole and Frege
N. Vassallo. Contributors. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
