The Prague Philosopher Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) has long been admired for his groundbreaking work in mathematics: his rigorous proofs of fundamental theorems in analysis, his construction of a continuous, nowhere-differentiable function, his investigations of the infinite, and his anticipations of Cantor's set theory. He made equally outstanding contributions in philosophy, most notably in logic and methodology. One of the greatest mathematician-philosophers since Leibniz, Bolzano is now widely recognised as a major figure of nineteenth-century philosophy. Praised by Husserl as "one of...

Edmund Husserl hat einmal die Wissenschaftslehre ein Werk genannt, das in Sachen der logischen Elementarlehre' alles weit zurucklasst, was die Weltliteratur an systematischen Entwurfen der Logik darbietet." In der Tat nimmt das vierbandige, 1837 veroffentlichte Werk zahlreiche Entwicklungen und Ansatze der spateren Phanomenologie und analytischen Philosophie vorweg. - Die Auswahlausgabe beschrankt sich aus Umfangsgrunden auf die Fundamentallehre (Teil I) und die Elementarlehre (Teil II) und damit auf die Teile des Werks, die Bolzano selbst fur die wichtigsten gehalten hat. Unveranderter...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.