Irving and Jon; I wonder if the "Studies in Logic" did not suffer, in part,
from a retrospective lack of unity. In other words, from the vantage point of
1950, the various topics (quantification, induction, Epicurus etc.) did not fit
the 20th century development of a more narrow-grained classification into
history of philosophy of science or formal deductive logic, or philosophy of
language and meaning. Another conjecture might be that the first two decades of
the 20th century dealt with the formalization and sytematizing of deductive
logic for textbook presentation. Only after sufficient time had passed could
the book be retrieved for historical and philosophical interest. Of course,
there is always the nefarious possibility of an 'institutional apriori"
authority having its way. Jim W
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:48:14 -0400
> From: ianel...@iupui.edu
> Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Not Preserving Peirce
> To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>
> 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
>
> ----- Message from jawb...@att.net ---------
> 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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> >
>
>
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>
>
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