Author : Stefania Centrone
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832550313
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Book Synopsis Oskar Becker on Modalities by : Stefania Centrone
Download or read book Oskar Becker on Modalities written by Stefania Centrone and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern modal logic is too often presented as an American success story that started with the work of the Harvard philosopher C. I. Lewis, while prewar modal logic research in Europe is passed off as a side-show of well-intended failures. As a contribute towards correcting this picture, we carefully analyze and reconsider Oskar Becker’s pioneering work On the Logic of Modalities (1930), highlighting its influence on the early development of modal logic in the decade 1930 - 1940.