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Akṣapāda Gautama, author of Nyāya Sūtras and founder of Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy (India, c. 6th century BC to 2nd century CE) Gangesha Upadhyaya, author of Tattvacintāmaṇi (A Thought-Jewel of Truth) and founder of Navya-Nyāya (India, c. 14th century CE) Peter Geach (UK, 1916–2013) Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909–1945)
Philosophy of logic is the area of philosophy that studies the nature of logic. [1] [2] Like many other disciplines, logic involves various philosophical presuppositions which are addressed by the philosophy of logic. [3]
Logic: The Laws of Truth is a 2012 book by Nicholas J. Smith, in which the author provides an introduction to classical logic. It covers the formal tools and techniques of logic and their underlying rationales and broader philosophical significance.
Alfred Tarski, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938, 1956/1983; William Kneale and Martha Kneale, The Development of Logic, 1962; Saul Kripke, "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic", 1963; Donald Davidson, "Truth and Meaning", 1967; Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, 1970/1986; David K. Lewis ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Books portal; Philosophy portal; Books about logic. Pages in category "Logic books" The following 36 ...
John Corcoran (/ ˈ k ɔːr k ər ən / KOR-kər-ən; March 20, 1937 – January 8, 2021) was an American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and historian of logic.He is best known for his philosophical work on concepts such as the nature of inference, relations between conditions, argument-deduction-proof distinctions, the relationship between logic and epistemology, and the place of proof ...
The history of logic deals with the study of the development of the science of valid inference ().Formal logics developed in ancient times in India, China, and Greece.Greek methods, particularly Aristotelian logic (or term logic) as found in the Organon, found wide application and acceptance in Western science and mathematics for millennia. [1]
Burgess received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley's Group in Logic and Methodology of Science. His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy.