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Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski

Selected Essays

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  • © 1992

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  1. Peter Simons

    1. University of Salzburg, Austria

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Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series (NIPS, volume 45)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Central Europe in the History of Philosophy

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 1-11

  3. Bolzano, Tarski, and the Limits of Logic

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 13-40

  4. Brentano’s Reform of Logic

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 41-69

  5. The Formalization of Husserl’s Theory of Wholes and Parts

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 71-116

  6. Frege’s Theory of Real Numbers

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 117-141

  7. The Anglo-Austrian Analytic Axis

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 143-158

  8. On What There Isn’t: The Meinong—Russell Dispute

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 159-191

  9. Lukasiewicz, Meinong, and Many-Valued Logic

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 193-225

  10. On Understanding Leśniewski

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 227-258

  11. A Brentanian Basis for Leśniewskian Logic

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 259-269

  12. Leśniewski’s Logic and Its Relations to Classical and Free logics

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 271-293

  13. A Semantics for Ontology

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 295-318

  14. The Old Problem of Complex and Fact

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 319-338

  15. Tractatus Mereologico-Philosophicus?

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 339-359

  16. Wittgenstein, Schlick and the a Priori

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 361-376

  17. Categories and Ways of Being

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 377-394

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 395-445
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About this book

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War. I recently taught at an American university on the his­ tory of philosophy from Balzano to Husserl. The course title had to come from a fixed pool and gave trouble. Was it philosophical logic, the nine­ teenth century, or phenomenology? A logic title would connote over this period Frege, Russell, Carnap, perhaps a mention of Boole: not continental enough. The nineteenth century? The century of Kant's successors: Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Feuer bach, Marx, Nietzsche? What have they to do with Balzano, Lotze, Brentano, Meinong, Husserl and Twardowski? Even­ tually 'Phenomenology' was chosen, misdescribing more than half of the course. That illustrates the problems one faces in trying to work against the picture of the period which is ingrained in minds and syllabuses. This book arises from my efforts to combat that picture. I backed into writing about the history of recent philosophy rather than setting out to do so. The beginning was chance. In Manchester in the early seventies, at a time when most English philosophy departments breathed re­ cycled Oxford air, the intellectual atmosphere derived from Cambridge and Warsaw, spiced with a breath of Freiburg and Paris.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Simons

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays

  • Authors: Peter Simons

  • Series Title: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8094-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1621-3Published: 29 February 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4129-6Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8094-6Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4530

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 445

  • Topics: Logic, Ontology, History, general

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