Bolzano's Theoretical Philosophy An Introduction

by Lapointe, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780230201491
• ISBN10: 0230201490
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The first book in English to offer a systematic survey of Bolzano#x19;s philosophical logic and theory of knowledge, it offers a reconstruction of Bolzano#x19;s views on a series of key issues: the analysis of meaning, generality, analyticity, logical consequence, mathematical demonstration and knowledge by virtue of meaning.

Author Biography

Sandra Lapointe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kansas State University, USA, where she has been teaching philosophy since 2005. She is Commonwealth alumna and Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. Her publications include Qu'est-ce quel'analyse? (2008), Bolzano contre Kant: Le nouvel Anti-Kant (2006) and a number of other books, articles and book chapters. She is a founding associate editor of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements 
Introduction
Kant
Decomposition
Meaning and Analysis
A Substitutional Theory
Analyticity
Consequence
Justification and Proof
A priori Knowledge
Things, Collections and Numbers
Frege
Husserl, Logical Psychologism and the Theory of Knowledge
Notes
Bibliography 
Index