Handbook of the history of logic. Volume 2, Mediaeval and renaissance logic /

Medieval and Renaissance Logic is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and AI, linguistics, cognitive scien...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Gabbay, Dov M., 1945- (Editor); Woods, John (John Hayden) (Editor)
Published: North Holland : Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbook of the History of Logic ; v. 2
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/18745857/2
Summary: Medieval and Renaissance Logic is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas. - Provides detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic - Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer many questions in the field of logic.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 716 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080560854
0080560857
Index Number: BC34
CLC: B81-09
Contents: 1. "Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition" by John Marenbon -- 2. "Beginning of Scholastic Logic before Abelard" by Yukio Iwakuma -- 3. "The Logic of Abelard and His Contemporaries" by Ian Wilks -- 4. "The Development of Supposition Theory in the Later 12th and Early 13th Centuries" by Terence Parsons -- 5. "Assimilation of Aristotelian and Arabic Logic up to the Later 13th Century" by Henrik Lagerlund -- 6. "Logic and Theories of Meaning in the Late 13th and Early 14th Century Including the Modistae" by Ria van der Lecq -- 7. "The Nominalist Semantics of William Ockham and John Buridan" by Gyula Klima -- 8. "Logic in the 14th Century after Ockham" by Catarina Dutilh-Novaes -- 9. "Treatments of Modal and Other 'Opaque' Contexts in Mediaeval Logic" by Simo Knuuttila -- 10. "Treatments of the Paradoxes of Self-reference" by Mikko Yrjonsuuri -- 11. "Developments in the 15th and 16th Centuries" by Jennifer Ashworth -- 12. "Relational Logic of Juan Caramuel" by Petr Dvorak -- 13. "Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity" by Russell Wahl.