Le[niewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics [Paperback]

This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw  Le[niewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The authors nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing Le[niewski's core philosophical views and evaluating the formulations that were to have such a profound influence on the evolution of mathematical logic.  

One of the undisputed leaders of the cohort of brilliant logicians that congregated in Poland in the early twentieth century, Le[niewski was a guide and mentor to a generation of celebrated analytical philosophers (Alfred Tarski was his PhD student). His primary achievement was a system of foundational mathematical logic intended as an alternative to the Principia Mathematica of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Its three strandsprotothetic, ontology, and mereology, are detailed in discrete sections of this volume, alongside a wealth other chapters grouped to provide the fullest possible coverage of Le[niewskis academic output.

With material on his early philosophical views, his contributions to set theory and his work on nominalism and higher-order quantification, this book offers a uniquely expansive critical commentary on one of analytical philosophys great pioneers.

Offering an expansive critical commentary, this meticulous assessment of the ground-breaking work of the philosopher Stanislaw?Le[niewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of work by a master logician of the Lvov-Warsaw school.Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Le[niewski's early philosophical views.- Chapter 3. Le[niewski's Protothetic.-  Chapter 4. Le[niewski's Ontology.- Chapter 5. Le[niewski's Mereology.- Chapter 6. Le[niewski and definitions.- Chapter 7. Sets revisited.- Chapter 8. Nominalism al“&