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Description for Jean Buridan's Logic
Paperback. Translator(s): King, P. Series: Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 605.
Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians, sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works, for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to problems of concern to analytic philosophers today. But his idiom is unfamiliar, so editions and trans lations alone will not bridge the gap of centuries. I have tried to make Buridan accessible to philosophers and logicians today by the introduc tory essay, in which I survey Buridan's philosophy of logic. Several problems which Buridan touches on only marginally in the ... Read more
Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians, sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works, for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to problems of concern to analytic philosophers today. But his idiom is unfamiliar, so editions and trans lations alone will not bridge the gap of centuries. I have tried to make Buridan accessible to philosophers and logicians today by the introduc tory essay, in which I survey Buridan's philosophy of logic. Several problems which Buridan touches on only marginally in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Series
Synthese Historical Library
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401088367
SKU
V9789401088367
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