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If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
Michael Shenefelt
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Description for If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place. Logic is more than the work of logicians alone. Its discoveries have survived only because logicians have also been able to find a willing audience, ... Read more
While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place. Logic is more than the work of logicians alone. Its discoveries have survived only because logicians have also been able to find a willing audience, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231161046
SKU
V9780231161046
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About Michael Shenefelt
Michael Shenefelt has a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and began teaching logic after having worked previously as a newspaper reporter. He is also the author of The Questions of Moral Philosophy. Heidi White has a doctorate in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a master's degree in the history of ideas from the University ... Read more
Reviews for If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
This is a fascinating story of one of our most abstract yet foundational disciplines. The result is an insightful and wonderfully readable exploration of an essential part of human rationality at work. Highly recommended.
Lloyd Carr, Rivier University Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White's new book is a risky undertaking and, I think, a valuable one. Their aim is to ... Read more
Lloyd Carr, Rivier University Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White's new book is a risky undertaking and, I think, a valuable one. Their aim is to ... Read more