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Quebec Studies in the Philosophy of Science - Part I: Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Quebec Studies in the Philosophy of Science - Part I: Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 177
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By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the
first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the
College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest
logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities
such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy began to be taught later,
during the second half of the 19th century. The major influence on
English-speaking philosophers was, at least initially, that of
Scottish Empiricism. On the other hand, the strong influence of the
Catholic Church on French-Canadian society meant that the staff of
the facultes of the French-speaking universities consisted, until
recently, almost entirely of Thomist philosophers. There was
accordingly little or no work in modem Formal Logic and Philosophy
of Science and precious few contacts between the philosophical
communities. In the late forties, Hugues Leblanc was a young
student wanting to learn Formal Logic. He could not find anyone in
Quebec to teach him and he went to study at Harvard University
under the supervision of W. V. Quine. His best friend Maurice L'
Abbe had left, a year earlier, for Princeton to study with Alonzo
Church. After receiving his Ph. D from Harvard in 1948, Leblanc
started his profes sional career at Bryn Mawr College, where he
stayed until 1967. He then went to Temple University, where he
taught until his retirement in 1992, serving as Chair of the
Department of Philosophy from 1973 until 1979.
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