Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle

ISBN-13: 9783031421891 / Angielski

Paola Cantù; Georg Schiemer

Spis treści

Part I Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories. From Peano to the Vienna Circle

1 Introduction: Symbolic Logic and Scientific Philosophy

Paola Cantù and Georg Schiemer

2 Peano’s Geometry: From Empirical Foundations to Abstract Development

Joan Bertran-San-Millán

3 Altered States. Borel and the Probabilistic Approach to Reality

Laurent Mazliak and Marc Sage

4 "Poincaré: the Philosopher" by Léon Brunschvicg. A Perspective

Frédéric Patras

5 Leibniz and the Vienna Circle

Massimo Ferrari

6 Schlick, Weyl, Husserl: On Scientific Philosophy

Julien Bernard

7 Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions

Francesca Biagioli

8 Schlick and Carnap on Definitions

Pierre Wagner

9 Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures

Paola Cantù and Frédéric Patras

10 Carnap and Gödel, Again

Gabriella Crocco

Part II General Part

11 Returns of Modality: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Arthur Pap

Sanford Shieh

12 Is Wittgenstein Still an Analytic Philosopher?

James Klagge

13 Frank on Special Relativity: 1908-1912

John Stachel

Part III Reviews

14 Review Essay: Mark Textor, The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics. Austrian Philosophy 1874–1918, Oxford University Press 2021

Josef Hlade

15 Review Essay: Rudolf Carnap, Tagebücher, Band 1 und 2, Meiner Verlag 2021

Anne Siegesleitner

16 Review: Adam Tuboly, The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic, Palgrave Macmillan 2021

Joseph Bentley

17 Review: Meike G. Werner (Ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein, Wallstein Verlag 2021

Christian Damböck

18 Review: Günther Sandner, Weltsprache ohne Worte. Rudolf Modley, Margaret Mead und das Glyphs-Projekt, Turia + Kant 2022; Christopher Burke, Wim Jansen, Soft propaganda, special relationships, and a new democracy, Adprint and Isotype 1942–1948, Uitgeverij de Buitenkant 2022

Silke Körber

19 Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021

Philipp Leon Bauer

O autorze

Paola Cantù is Chargée de Recherche CNRS (CRHC) at the Centre Gilles Gaston Granger at Aix-Marseille Université.

Georg Schiemer is professor at the Department of Philosophy and head of department of the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is also an external fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich.

Blurb

This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the editorial board of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, and the members of the Vienna Circle are generally mentioned as champions of this transformation of the role of logic in mathematics and in the sciences. The scholarship contained provides a rich historical and philosophical understanding of these groups and research areas. Specifically, the contributions focus on a detailed investigation of the relation between structuralism and modern mathematics. In addition, this book provides a closer understanding of the relation between symbolic logic and previous traditions such as syllogistics. This volume also informs the reader on the relation between logic, the history and didactics in the Peano School. This edition appeals to students and researchers working in the history of philosophy and of logic, philosophy of science, as well as to researchers on the Vienna Circle and the Peano School.