Jon,
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Kneale & Kneale, to which Jack referred, was originally written in the
late 1950s and published in 1962, and in terms of respective
significance pays more attention to Kant even than to Frege, and is
best, thanks to Martha Kneale's expertise, on the medievals. Trouble
was, in those days, and pretty much even today, it is about all there
is in English.
My joint paper with Nathan Houser, "The Nineteenth Century Roots of
Universal Algebra and Algebraic Logic", in Hajnal Andreka, James Donald
Monk, Istvan Nemeti (eds.), Colloquia Mathematica Societatis Janos
Bolyai 54. Algebraic Logic, Budapest (Hungary), 1988
(Amsterdam/London/New York: North-Holland, 1991), 1-36, includes a
brief analysis of what's WRONG with Kneale & Kneale and its ilk.
When Mendelson's translation of Styazhkin's History of Mathematical
Logic came out in 1969, it should really have come to serve as a decent
supplement to Kneale & Kneale for K & K's grossly inadequate treatment
of Boole, Peirce, Schröder, Jevons, Venn, and Peano to help fill in the
serious gaps in Kneale & Kneale.
Even if one looks at the hugh multi-volume Handbook of the History of
Logic under the editorship of Dov Gabbay and John Woods that is still
coming out, it's a mixed bag in terms of the quality of the essays,
some of which are historical surveys, others of which are attempts at
reconstruction based on philosophical speculation.
Irving
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:15:05 -0400
From: Jon Awbrey <jawb...@att.net>
Reply-To: Jon Awbrey <jawb...@att.net>
Subject: Re: Not Preserving Peirce
To: Jack Rooney <johnphilipda...@hotmail.com>
Jack,
All histories of logic written that I've read so far are very weak on Peirce,
and I think it's fair to say that even the few that make an attempt to cover
his work have fallen into the assimilationist vein.
Regards,
Jon
Jack Rooney wrote:
Despite all this there are several books on the history of logic eg
Kneale & Kneale[?].
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