Necessity Lost: Modality And Logic In Early Analytic Philosophy, Volume 1 Sanford Shieh

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199228647
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199228645
• Author: Sanford Shieh

A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true. A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in philosophy is that, at its very inception, this venerable conception of the relation between logic and necessity and possibility – the concepts of modality – was put into question. The founders of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, held that these concepts are empty: there are no genuine distinctions among the necessary, the possible, and the actual. In this book, the first of two volumes, Sanford Shieh investigates the grounds of this position and its consequences for Frege’s and Russell’s conceptions of logic. The grounds lie in doctrines on truth, thought, and knowledge, as well as on the relation between mind and reality, that are central to the philosophies of Frege and Russell, and are of enduring philosophical interest.

Table contents:

Part I: Frege
1. The Modalities of Judgment

2. Amodalism

3. From Judgment to Amodalism

4. The Truth in Modalism

5. The Nature of Logic

Part II: Russell and Moore
6. From Idealism to Logicism

7. The Rejection of Modality

8. Completing the Rejection of Idealism

9. Logic and Implication

10. The Continuing Banishment of Modality

Postscript
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index

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