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A Simple Logic of Concepts
In Pietroski (
2018 ) a simple representation language called SMPL is introduced, construed as a hypothesis about core conceptual structure. The... -
Hegel and Husserl on Phenomenology, Logic, and the System of Sciences: A Reappraisal
Husserl envisages transcendental phenomenology as a radically founding science that lays bare the higher-order experiences whereby logic and a theory...
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Hegel’s Logic of Negation
In his introduction to the General Concept of the Logic, Hegel writes: “What propels the concept onward is the already mentioned negative which it...
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Indeterminacy and Non-classical Logic
This paper is a response to a challenge set by Timothy Williamson in his Contribution to this volume where he argues that, even leaving aside the...
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Introduction: Symbolic Logic and Scientific Philosophy
The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the...
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Logic as a methodological discipline
This essay offers a conception of logic by which logic may be considered to be exceptional among the sciences on the backdrop of a naturalistic...
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Self-Reference, Self-Representation, and the Logic of Intentionality
Representationalist accounts of mental content face the threat of the homunculus fallacy. In collapsing the distinction between the conscious state...
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Materialism, Logic, and Mathematics
In the last half century, several philosophies of mathematics situate themselves in the orbit of materialism. However, their divergences are as...
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Proof-Theoretical System for Predicate Logic: ∏πφ=
The eighth chapter explores proof-theoretical systems for predicate logic (natural deduction proof systems), detailing and justifying the elaborate...
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Part II of On the Logic of Modalities
The ultimate goal of this part is to show that a proper understanding of the problem of modalities gives insight (i) into the conceptual...
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Dialectical Hegelian Logic and Physical Quantity and Quality
In Ontology, quality determines beings. The quality-quantity bipolarity reveals that a conceptual logical comprehension that can include negation...
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Machines, Logic and Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein’s “machines-as-symbols” are considered with respect to their historical sources and their symbolic and logical nature. Among these...
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The Mathematical Ideal and the Elision of the Subject
Contemporary science is bound to the mathematical ideal of knowledge, key to which is the elision of the knowing subject. Can biology, as inquiry...
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Logic in Reality
In the middle of the twentieth Century, the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane Lupasco proposed a uniqueSemantics non-truth functional,...
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Nietzsche’s Legacy and Constitutional Values: A Deconstructive Reading
Derrida’s recently published Life Death seminars have again highlighted the importance of values within the ongoing philosophical conversation about...
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Formal Definition of Distinction
Laws of Form (LoF) defines distinction with two axioms and demonstrates a primary non-numerical arithmetic that grounds Boolean algebra (logic)....
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Motion as Logic of Practice (Bourdieu)
In this concluding chapter, I shall now consider the ‘symbolic character of motion’ not just as a philosophical object of reflection, but as a social...
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A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659–1660
This chapter deals with a controversy over the origin of life that reached well beyond the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and Brandenburg. It...
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Two Versions of Meaning Failure: A Contributing Essay to the Explanation of the Split Between Analytical and Phenomenological Continental philosophy
Theories of meaning developed within the analytic tradition, starting with Gottlob Frege, and within continental philosophy, starting with Husserl,...
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Hintikka’s conception of syntheticity as the introduction of new individuals
In a series of papers published in the sixties and seventies, Jaakko Hintikka, drawing upon Kant’s conception, defines an argument to be analytic...