Studies in the history of logic - Rescher, Nicholas (Ontos Verlag, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of Contents; PREFACE; ON ARISTOTLE'S APODEICTICSYLLOGISMS; AL-KINDĪ'S SKETCH OF ARISTOTLE'SORGANON; A NINTH-CENTURY ARABICLOGICIAN ON:IS EXISTENCE A PREDICATE?; AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF"CONDITIONAL" PROPOSITIONS; AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OFQUESTIONS; THE ARABIC THEORY OFTEMPORAL MODAL SYLLOGISTIC; CHOICE WITHOUT PREFERENCE:THE PROBLEM OF "BURIDAN'S ASS"; LEIBNIZ'S INTERPRETATIONOF HIS LOGICAL CALCULI; RUSSELL AND MODAL LOGIC; DEFAULT REASONING; Name Index
It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher's interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author's efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher's own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950's (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). There