Francesco Ademollo - Thinking and Calculating: Essays in Logic, Its History and Its Philosophical Applications in Honour of Massimo Mugnai

Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science aims to reconsider the question of the unity of science in light of recent developments in logic. At present, no single logical, semantical or methodological framework dominates the philosophy of science. However, the editors of this series believe that formal frameworks, for example, constructive type theory, deontic logics, dialogical logics, epistemic logics, modal logics, and proof-theoretical semantics, have the potential to cast new light on basic issues in the discussion of the unity of science.

This series provides a venue where philosophers and logicians can apply specific systematic and historic insights to fundamental philosophical problems. While the series is open to a wide variety of perspectives, including the study and analysis of argumentation and the critical discussion of the relationship between logic and philosophy of science, the aim is to provide an integrated picture of the scientific enterprise in all its diversity.

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This book has a twofold nature. It is about something; and it is for someone.

On the one hand, it is a collection of twenty-two essays in the history of logicbroadly conceivedwritten by outstanding specialists in the field. Our aim has been to display the vastness and depth of the developments of logic throughout the centuries, the large array of problems that have fallen within its purview, and the manifold relations that it has entertained with other disciplines. The topics do not cover every aspect of the history of logic, and a few key figures (for example Bolzano or Frege) happen not to be included. In this as in other respects, the volume does not aim to be a textbook providing a comprehensive survey. Rather, it highlights several less-frequented topics and provides a clear picture of some of the most promising developments in recent historiography. Its goal is more to advance cutting-edge research in the field, and display its breadth and diversity, than to encompass the field itself exhaustively.

On the other hand, the book is intended as a tribute to Massimo Mugnai, whose contribution to the history of medieval and modern logic, and to the understanding of the writings of Leibniz in particular, have shaped the field in the last four decades. So the volume also aims to illustrate the breadth of Massimos work and influence. Some of the authors have been his students in Bari, in Florence, or at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (where he moved in 2002 and stayed until his retirement in 2017); some have been his colleagues; all have been among his many interlocutors, collaborators, and friends.

Here we shall not try to list Massimos many scholarly and academic achievements; a comprehensive account up to 2013 was provided by Richard Arthur in that years issue of the