John Venn : A Life in Logic Lukas M. Verburgt

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 022681551X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226815510
• Author(s): Lukas M. Verburgt

John Venn (1834-1923) is remembered today as the inventor of the famous Venn diagram. The postmortem fame of the diagram has until now eclipsed Venn’s own status as one of the most accomplished logicians of his day. Praised by John Stuart Mill as a “highly successful thinker” with much “power of original thought,” Venn had a profound influence on nineteenth-century scientists and philosophers, ranging from Mill and Francis Galton to Lewis Carroll and Charles Sanders Peirce. Venn was heir to a clerical Evangelical dynasty, but religious doubts led him to resign Holy Orders and instead focus on an academic career. He wrote influential textbooks on probability theory and logic, became a fellow of the Royal Society, and advocated alongside Henry Sidgwick for educational reform, including that of women’s higher education. Moreover, through his students, a direct line can be traced from Venn to the early analytic philosophy of G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, and family ties connect him to the famous Bloomsbury group.

Table contents:

1 Family, Childhood, and Youth (1834-53)
2 Student (1853-57)
3 Curate (1857-62)
4 Intellectual Breakthrough (1862)
5 Moral Scientist (1862-69)
6 Probability (1866)
7 Religious Thinker (1867-73)
8 Logic Papers (1874-80)
9 Algebraic Logic (1881)
10 Dereverend Believer and Amateur Scientist (1883-90)
11 Scientific Logic (1889)
12 Biographer (1891-1923)
Epilogue: A Worldless Victorian
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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