This vivid and thought-provoking book by the Israeli logician
Nimrod Bar-Am impels one to rethink the place of logic in Western
thought. It shows that the history of logic from Aristotle to
Tarski is the history of the gradual undoing of the classic
conflation of logic and empirical science. It sets tomorrowa (TM)s
agenda for philosophers and historians of logic and scientific
method by taking as its starting point the mere fact that,
curiously, ancient logic is not as formal as current literature
presents it. Rather, as Bar-Am explains, modern formal logic became
possible only after a series of bold criticisms of the magnificent
Aristotelian system. These criticisms begin with David Humea (TM)s
declaration that logic does not sanction induction, follow on with
Kanta (TM)s view of logic as an extremely limited system, and
culminating with Boolesa (TM) introduction of logic as an
extensional system, and Russella (TM)s solution to his own paradox.
The book offers a breathtaking intellectual odyssey; presenting
the development of logic as an evolving critical assessment of
approaches to an impossible ideal. Bar-Am handles an extremely
complex subject matter in a manner that is both accessible to the
general educated reader and challenging to the learned expert, by
opening to them live background ideas to dead formulas. The book
will easily find its place alongside both general introductions to
the history of science and advanced reading lists in the philosophy
of logic.
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