Logic: A History of its Central Concepts, Vol. 11 (Handbook of the History of Logic) (Volume 11) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444529373 ISBN 13: 9780444529374

Publisher: North Holland, 2012

Synopsis

The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It is the first work in English in which the history of logic is presented so extensively. The volumes are numerous and large. Authors have been given considerable latitude to produce chapters of a length, and a level of detail, that would lay fair claim on the ambitions of the project to be a definitive research work. Authors have been carefully selected with this aim in mind. They and the Editors join in the conviction that a knowledge of the history of logic is nothing but beneficial to the subject's present-day research programmes. One of the attractions of the Handbook's several volumes is the emphasis they give to the enduring relevance of developments in logic throughout the ages, including some of the earliest manifestations of the subject.

• Covers in depth the notion of logical consequence
• Discusses the central concept in logic of modality
• Includes the use of diagrams in logical reasoning

About this title

About the Author:

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.

Review:

"This last volume of the Handbook of the history of logic is devoted to the history of its central concepts...These highly readable histories stretch from antiquity to the present day and are provided with very generous bibliographies." --Zentralblatt MATH

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0444529373
• ISBN 13: 9780444529374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 708
• Editor: Gabbay Dov M., Pelletier Francis Jeffry, Woods John