History, Sociology, & Scope of Logic:
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Abeles, Francine F.; Fuller, Mark E.; eds. Modern Logic 1850-1950, East and West. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.

Introduction / Francine F. Abeles and Mark E. Fuller / 1
Preface and Prospectus to a planned “History vs. Philosophy of Logic” Text / Irving H. Anellis / 5
The Historical Sources of Tree Graphs and the Tree Method in the Work of Peirce and Gentzen / Irving H. Anellis and Francine F. Abeles / 35
Logic and Argumentation in Belgium: The Role of Leo Apostel / Jean Paul Van Bendegem / 99
Tarski’s Recantation: Reading the Postscript to “Wahrheitsbegriff” / Philippe de Rouilhan / 119
Paradox of Analyticity and Related Issues / Jan Woleński / 135
Naturalizing Natural Deduction / David DeVidi and Herbert Korté / 139
Category Theory and the Search for Universals: A Very Short Guide for Philosophers / Alberto Peruzzi / 159
On the Way to Modern Logic: The Case of Polish Logic / Roman Murawski / 183
Russian Origins of Non-Classical Logics / Valentin A. Bazhanov / 197
Constructive Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia: A (Somewhat Subjective) View from Within / Vladik Kreinovich / 205
On Normalizing Disjunctive Intermediate Logics / Jonathan P. Seldin / 237
A Natural Axiom System for Boolean Algebras with Applications / R. E. Hodel / 249

Bochenski, I. M. A History of Formal Logic, translated and edited by Ivo Thomas. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961.

Dumitriu, Anton. History of Logic. (English translation of 2nd ed.). 4 vols. Tunbridge Wells: Abacus Press, 1977.

V. 1. Logic in non-European cultures. Logic in ancient Greece. Rhetors and commentators
v. 2. Scholastic logic. Renaissance logic
v. 3. Methodological logic. Development of modern logic
v. 4. Mathematical logic

“This is one of the most comprehensive histories of logic ever written. It covers such topics as (1) logic in ancient China, India, Greece, and Rome, (2) scholastic and renaissance logic, (3) the logic of empirical scientific method, i.e., the logic of experimentation, inductive logic and probability, and the logic of research, (4) the metaphysical and transcendental logics of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Husserl, and (5) many topics in twentieth century mathematical logic, e.g., Russell, Gödel, many-valued logics, and the reactions to mathematical logic.”

Gabbay, Dov M.; Woods, John; eds. Handbook of the History of Logic. 11 volumes. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier, 2004-2014.

v. 1. Greek, Indian, and Arabic logic
v. 2. Mediaeval and Renaissance logic
v. 3. The rise of modern logic: from Leibniz to Frege
v. 4. British logic in the nineteenth century
v. 5. Logic from Russell to Church
v. 6. Sets and extensions in the twentieth century
v. 7. Logic and the modalities in the twentieth century
v. 8. The many valued and nonmonotonic turn in logic
v. 9. Computational Logic
v. 10. Inductive logic
v. 11. Logic: a history of its central concepts.

Contents of Volume 8:

Many-valued Logic and its Philosophy / Grzegorz Malinowski / 13
Preservationism: A Short History / Bryson Brown / 95
Paraconsistency and Dialetheism / Graham Priest / 129
The History of Quantum Logic / Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini and Miklos Rédei / 205
Logics of Vagueness / Dominic Hyde / 285
Fuzzy-set Based Logics — An History-oriented Presentation of their Main Developments /
     Didier Dubois, Francesc Esteva, Lluís Godo and Henri Prade / 325
Nonmonotonic Logics: A Preferential Approach / Karl Schlechta / 451
Default Logic / Grigoris Antoniou and Kewen Wang / 517
Nonmonotonic Reasoning / Alexander Bochman / 557
Free Logics / Carl J. Posy / 633
Index 681

Gensler, Harry J. The A to Z of Logic [Historical Dictionary of Logic]. Lanham ; Toronto; Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010. (The A to Z Guide Series; No. 169)

Haaaparanta, Leila, ed. The Development of Modern Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic: From Aristotle to Tarski, edited by Alex Malpass and Marianna Antonutti Marfori. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Kneale, William, and Martha Kneale. The Development of Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.

Skodo, Admir, ed. Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Acknowledgments / vii
Notes on Contributors / viii
Introduction / Admir Skodo / 1
PART 1 ; Perspectives from the History of Thought 15
     1 Proving the Principle of Logic: Quentin Meillassoux, Jean-Luc Nancy,
        and the Anhypothetical / Christopher Watkin / 17
     2 The Self, Ideology, and Logic: F.C.S. Schiller’s Pragmatist Critique of
        and Alternative to Formal Logic / Admir Skodo / 32
     3 Language, Truth, and Logic: Heidegger on the Practical and Historical Grounds
        of Abstract Thought / Aaron James Wendland / 51
     4 The Obstacle: Jacques Lacan’s Critique of the Formal Logical Representation
        of the Real / Ervik Cejvan / 66
     5 Collingwood’s Logic of Question and Answer against the Relativization of Reason /
        Christopher Fear / 81
PART 2: Perspectives from Contemporary Philosophy / 101
     6 Representationalist Logic / Frank Ankersmit / 103
     7 On Logical Aliens / Alessandra Tanesini / 123
     8 The Heart of Metaphysical Pluralism and the Consistency Dilemma:
        A Critical Analysis of the Possibility of Incompatible Truths / Thord Svensson / 148
     9 The Logic of “Oughts” and the Bindingness of Past Practice:
        A Critique of Normative Judgment Internalism through a Reading
        of King Lear’s Act I / Karim Dharamsi / 169
    10 First-Order Logic, Incongruism, and Anti-Formalism / Anders Kraal / 188
    11 Zombies, Selves, and the Possibility of Afterlife / Johan Modée / 207
    12 The Logocentric Predicament and the Logic of Question and Answer /
         Giuseppina D’Oro / 221
Indices
     Name 235
     Subject 237

Arabic Logic

Grunebaum, G. E. von. Logic in Classical Islamic Culture. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1970. (1st Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, 1967.)

Rescher, Nicholas. The Development of Arabic Logic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.

_____________. Studies in the History of Arabic Logic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963.

_____________. Temporal Modalities in Arabic Logic. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1967.

Politics & Sociology of Logic

Livingston, Paul M. The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Rosental, Claude. Weaving Self-Evidence: A Sociology of Logic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

“The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist Claude Rosental challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known recent example in the field of artificial intelligence — a theorem on the foundations of fuzzy logic. Rosental’s analyses disclose the inherently social nature of the process by which propositions in logic are produced, disseminated, and established as truths.”

Logic, Rationality, & Reality

Burgis, Ben. Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. Ridgefield, CT: Zer0 Books, 2019.

Hanna, Robert. Rationality and Logic. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. See also:

__________. “Rationality and the Ethics of Logic,” Journal of Philosophy, 103 (2006): 67-100.

Havas, Katalin G. ‘Changing the World — Changing the Meaning: On the Meanings of the ,,Principle of Non-Contradiction”,’ in In the World of Signs: Essays in honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc, edited by Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and Witold Strawinski (Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 49-54.

__________. It’s Logical! Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999. (Rodopi Philosophical Studies; 4)

__________. Thought, Language, and Reality in Logic; translated by J. Kovács and M. Gulyás, revised by B. Dajka. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1992.

Introduction
Part One: The Place of Philosophical Logic within Logic
l. Preconditions for the Rise of the Concept of ‘Philosophical Logic’
     1.1 The rise of modern logic
     1.2 Traditional logic and modern logic
     1.3 The development of modern logic
2. The Concept of Philosophical Logic
     2.1 Philosophical logic and mathematical logic
     2.2 The philosophy of logic
     2.3 Some further conceptions
3. Dialectical Logic
     3.1 The predecessors of Hegelian dialectical logic
     3.2 Hegel’s dialectical logic
     3.3 The classical Marxism on logic
     3.4 Some present-day conceptions of dialectical logic
Part Two: The Nature of Logical Objects
4. Logic and Thought
     4.1 Reflection and the activity of the mind
     4.2 Psychologism and anti-psychologism in logic
     4.3 The modelling of thinking in logic
5. Logic and Language
     5.1 The linguistic-conventionalistic interpretation of logic
     5.2 Analogies in the development of logic and linguistics
     5.3 The logical form
6. Logic and Reality
     6.1 Reflection of reality by means of logic
     6.2 The general character of logical laws
     6.3 The concept of existence
Bibliography

Hegel and the Sciences, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; v. 64)

III. DIALECTICS AND LOGIC
Yvon Gauthier / Hegel’s Logic from a Logical Point of View 303
Michael Kosok / The Dynamics of Hegelian Dialectics, and Non-Linearity in the Sciences 311
Hector Sabelli / Mathematical Dialectics, Scientific Logic and the Psychoanalysis of Thinking [Comment on Kosok and Gauthier] 349
Ivan Soll / Comments on Kosok’s Interpretation of Hegel’s Logic 361

Kolozova, Katerina; Cockshott, William Paul; Michaelson, Greg. Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.

Language, Logic, and Method, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; v. 31)

Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought, edited by Jonathan O. Chimakonam. Wilmington, DE; Malaga, Spain: Vernon Press, 2020. xx, 326 pp.

Łukasiewicz, Jan. The Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle: A Critical Study (1910), translated by Holger R. Heine, foreword by Graham Priest. Honolulu: Topos Books, 2023.

The Metaphysics of Logic, edited by Penelope Rush. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Novaes, Catarina Dutilh. Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Nye, Andrea. Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic. New York: Routledge, 1990. (Thinking Gender Series)

Rambo, Cat; Burgis, Ben. “Logic and Magic in the Time of the Boat Lift,” Gigantosaurus, March 1, 2013, Volume 3 No 5.

Redding, Paul. Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic, edited by Rachel Joffe Falmagne and Marjorie Hass. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.

Schiller, F. C. S. Formal Logic: A Scientific and Social Problem. London: Macmillan And Co, Limited, 1912.

Thinking About Logic: Classic Essays, edited by Steven M. Cahn, Robert B. Talisse. Scott F. Aikin. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2011.

Tiercelin, Claudine. The Pragmatists and the Human Logic of Truth. New edition [online]. Paris: Collège de France, 2014.


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