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- Provides a broad, concise, accurate and up-to-date overview of the history of logic (up to and including the early modern period)
- The first history of logic that explains logical theories as philosophical solutions to fundamental epistemological problems: it is the first extended treatment of the history of logic from the point of view of critical rationalism
- Challenges previous and prevalent histories of logic
- Unites the history of logic with the history of epistemology
- The first extensive discussion of the philosophical and historical importance of extensionalism
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminary Notes
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Setting the Scene: Some Notes on the Pre-history of Logic
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Aristotle's Logic: The Rise of Essentialism
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The Fall of Essentialism
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Sapir College of the Negev, 79165, Israel
Nimrod Bar-Am
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic
Authors: Nimrod Bar-Am
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8168-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8167-5Published: 17 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7790-5Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8168-2Published: 03 April 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 172
Topics: Logic, Philosophy, general, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Modern Philosophy