ID - 323511 TI - The evolution of logic PY - 2010 SN - 9780521747721 9780521766814 0521747724 0521766818 9780511779589 9780511789953 0511789955 9780511787348 0511787340 0511851006 1107208955 1282771396 9786612771392 0511779585 0511789211 0511786204 0511788487 PB - New York: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Logic KW - Logique KW - History KW - Histoire KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Science KW - Scientific method KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Methodology. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Logic - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:323511 AB - "Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic. These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes, like Russell's. This ferment generated excellent philosophy (and mathematics) by excellent philosophers (and mathematicians) up to World War II. This book provides a selective, critical history of the collaboration between logic and philosophy during this period. After World War II, mathematical logic became a recognized subdiscipline in mathematics departments, and consequently but unfortunately philosophers have lost touch with its monuments. This book aims to make four of them (consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem) more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy" ER -