{"product_id":"9783319004815","title":"Le\u0026#347;niewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (Trends in Logic) \u003cVol. 37\u003e","description":"Offering an expansive critical commentary, this meticulous assessment of the ground-breaking work of the philosopher Stanislaw Lesniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of work by a master logician of the Lvov-Warsaw school. \u003cp\u003eThis meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw  Lesniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author's nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing Lesniewski's core philosophical views and evaluating the formulations that were to have such a profound influence on the evolution of mathematical logic.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the undisputed leaders of the cohort of brilliant logicians that congregated in Poland in the early twentieth century, Lesniewski was a guide and mentor to a generation of celebrated analytical philosophers (Alfred Tarski was his PhD student). His primary achievement was a system of foundational mathematical logic intended as an alternative to the Principia Mathematica of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Its three strands-'protothetic', 'ontology', and 'mereology', are detailed in discrete sectionsof this volume, alongside a wealth other chapters grouped to provide the fullest possible coverage of Lesniewski's academic output. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith material on his early philosophical views, his contributions to set theory and his work on nominalism and higher-order quantification, this book offers a uniquely expansive critical commentary on one of analytical philosophy's great pioneers. \u003c\/p\u003e Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Lesniewski's early philosophical views.- Chapter 3. Lesniewski's Protothetic.- Chapter 4. Lesniewski's Ontology.- Chapter 5. Lesniewski's Mereology.- Chapter 6. Lesniewski and definitions.- Chapter 7. Sets revisited.- Chapter 8. Nominalism and higher-order quantification. \"This is only the second monograph in English devoted to the logical work of Stanislaw Lesniewski ... . It contains helpful signposts to and discussion of the secondary literature, is much more in touch with logical orthodoxy, and each chapter has its own abstract and bibliography; so it can be dipped into as well as read from front to back. ... it is a good survey and a clear step forward in understanding his place in twentieth-century logic.\" (Peter Simons, Philosophia Mathematica, Vol. 25, 2016)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48778807640299,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":100.69,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783319004815","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}